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DPH task force debates whether to house 'lived experience' in its own subcommittee or across all workgroups
Summary
Members of the Department of Public Health maternal health task force debated whether people with lived experience should sit on a single community subcommittee or be integrated across subject subcommittees, stressing clear methodology, role definitions and non-exploitative engagement.
The Department of Public Health-led maternal health task force spent the meeting narrowing how it will structure subcommittees and how to include people with lived experience in its work.
Facilitators proposed four topic subcommittees—data, doula-friendly hospitals, perinatal mental health, and community & lived experience—and asked the group whether lived-experience participants should be concentrated in a single committee or represented across each technical committee. Members raised…
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