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WIC & Family Planning Epidemiologist

What is Family Planning?
Family planning services provide information and the means for men and women to exercise personal choice in determining the number and spacing of their children. Authorized under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, the Family Planning Act of 1970 was the first US statute to provide authority, funding and support for comprehensive and voluntary family planning services to all who want and need them. The Michigan Family planning program provides contraceptive services and reproductive healthcare to low income men and women.

Basic Principles
·       All services are voluntary and confidential
·       Abortions are not provided
·       Services are available to men and women
·       Services are provided respecting the dignity of each individual; without any discrimination or coercion
·       Client charges are based on income; services are not denied due to inability to pay
·       The Family Planning Program does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the ground of race, color, or national origin, or on the basis of disability, gender or age.

The Family Planning epidemiologist position is funded from Title X federal funds.

What is WIC?
In 1972, recognizing that poor nutritional status is preventable, Congress created the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC). Administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the goal of WIC is to "safeguard the health of low-income women, infants and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk". This is accomplished by providing federal grants to the States for supplemental foods, health care referrals and professional nutrition education targeting low-income women, infants and children. In Michigan, the WIC administration is housed within the Bureau of Family, Maternal, and Child Health in the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH). Program outreach and data collection are preformed by the existing forty-nine WIC agencies.

Eligibility criteria that must be met to participate in WIC are to be:

a pregnant or post partum woman, infant, or child under the age of five;
a resident of Michigan;
at or below 185% of the Poverty Income Guideline or participate in another state-administered program that utilizes the same income guidelines;
classified by a health professional as "nutritionally at risk"

The WIC program epidemiologist is funded by federal funds from the WIC program.

Family Planning & WIC Epidemiologist Roles & Responsibilities:
This position provides epidemiological support to the Department, the Bureau of Epidemiology, and Bureau of Family, Maternal, and Child Health and is the recognized resources on all epidemiologic matters concerning the Title X/Family planning and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). This includes epidemiologic study design, statistical analysis, technical expertise, program evaluation, and policy and program development. This position plays an important role in identifying and then advising on the epidemiological priorities in collaboration with program staff. In addition, the WIC/Family Planning Epidemiologist actively collaborates with other maternal child health programs as well as other MCH epidemiologists.

Deliverables:

WIC
Annual Report 2007 with trends 2003-2007 *coming soon
Local Agency Briefs 2009 *coming soon

Recent Presentations:
Comparison of maternal pre-pregnancy weight classification methods and the effect on gestational weight gain classification among MI adolescents 2003-2007; McKane PL, Grigorescu V, Eghtedary K (2010). 16th Annual Maternal & Child Health Epidemiology Conference, San Antonio, TX. Dec 2010.

Predictors of repeat pregnancy among Michigan adolescents ages 10-19 years ~Special Supplemental Nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), 2003-2007; McKane PL, Korzeniewski S, Grigorescu V, Eghtedary K (2009). Poster Presented at the following: December 10, 2009 - 15th Annual Maternal & Child Health Epidemiology Conference, Tampa, FL; June 3, 2010 - Healthy Mothers ~ Healthy Babies, 2010, Mt. Pleasant, MI; April 27, 2010 - Michigan WIC Annual Conference, Acme, MI; March 19, 2010 - Michigan Epidemiology Conference, East Lansing, MI

Research/Professional Interests:

Longitudinal data analysis
Program evaluation
Data linkages

Contact Info:
Epidemiologist: Patricia McKane, DVM, MPH
Email: mckanep@michigan.gov
Phone: 517-335-9456
Fax: 517-335-9195
Address:
201 Townsend St.
P.O. Box 30195
Lansing, MI 48909

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