title: Improving birth outcomes requires closing the racial gap.
authors.affiliation: Gail Christopher is vice president-program strategy and Patrick Simpson is a program officer at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI.
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Christopher
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D006292:Health Priorities; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D064890:Social Determinants of Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data