Speaker Profile

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	Biography Ms. Julie Zaharatos, MPH works with partners across the U.S. to promote better understanding of the causes and factors contributing to maternal mortality. For over eight years she has supported the development of maternal mortality review committees and contributed to the Report from Nine Maternal Mortality Review Committees and Examination of a Death due to Cardiomyopathy by a Maternal Mortality Review Committee and Changing the conversation: Applying a health equity framework to maternal mortality reviews. As part of CDC’s Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality (ERASE MM) initiative, Julie provides technical assistance and problem solving for state specific needs. Julie received her MPH from Hunter College; she also holds a BA in anthropology. She previously served as Maternal and Child Health Program Director for the March of Dimes Georgia Chapter and served as a member of the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee from 2014-2016. Disclosure 1. I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose. 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).

Biography
Ms. Julie Zaharatos, MPH works with partners across the U.S. to promote better understanding of the causes and factors contributing to maternal mortality. For over eight years she has supported the development of maternal mortality review committees and contributed to the Report from Nine Maternal Mortality Review Committees and Examination of a Death due to Cardiomyopathy by a Maternal Mortality Review Committee and Changing the conversation: Applying a health equity framework to maternal mortality reviews. As part of CDC’s Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality (ERASE MM) initiative, Julie provides technical assistance and problem solving for state specific needs. Julie received her MPH from Hunter College; she also holds a BA in anthropology. She previously served as Maternal and Child Health Program Director for the March of Dimes Georgia Chapter and served as a member of the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee from 2014-2016.
Disclosure
1. I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose. 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).