Dr. Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MPH, MSW has almost 3 decades of expertise, leadership, and research in maternal, child, and family well-being. Dr. Verbiest is the director of the Jordan Institute for Families at UNC School of Social Work and the executive director of the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at UNC School of Medicine. She supervises programs that serve clinics across North Carolina, serves on policy teams such as the Child Fatality Task Force, holds a robust research portfolio, and has convened statewide coalitions to address maternal and infant mortality disparities. Dr. Verbiest has successfully led complex mixed-methods research studies and leveraged the findings into clinical practice. She has co-led a federally-funded national training and technical assistance center where she provided leadership and coaching to maternal and child health programs across the country. She has edited four books, including Preconception Health and Care: A Lifecourse Perspective and the Maternal and Child Health textbook and has published over 45 articles. She leads the Show Your Love Today preconception health campaign and is currently focusing on preconception health for people with chronic conditions. She is also a co-founder of the 4th Trimester Project. Her emerging interests include caregiving across the lifecourse and mid-life women’s health. You can follow her on LinkedIn.
Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH
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