Maternal Child Health Summit

The 3rd Annual Nebraska Maternal Child Health Summit will be held November 19, 2026 at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln. The Summit brings together partners from across Nebraska who influence maternal and child health outcomes. This year’s Summit will address timely issues including, the Rural Health Transformation Program implementation; changes to Medicaid; maternal and partner mental health; shared maternity care; social needs and economic realities of young parents; and challenges related to childcare.

The Summit is intended for health care and public health professionals; community-based organizations; home visiting and family support programs; behavioral health and social service providers; early childhood professionals; local and state agencies; hospitals and health systems; researchers and students; community leaders and advocates; and families and individuals with lived experience. This cross-sector gathering creates valuable opportunities for sponsors to connect with organizations and individuals actively working to improve the health and well-being of Nebraska communities.

Registration for the Summit will be open by the end of September 2026.

The Summit website will be available soon. On the website you will find the agenda, speaker and panelist bios, slides and evaluations.

In November 2024 and 2025, Partnership for a Healthy Nebraska in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Creighton University Institute for Population Health, First Five Nebraska, Nebraska Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative and Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services hosted the Nebraska Maternal Child Health Summit. In both years, the summit brought together nearly 200 people from all over the state working in many sectors of maternal child health - physicians, community health workers, maternal health advocates, lawmakers and mental health professionals - to discuss ways to improve perinatal outcomes in Nebraska on many levels. The 2025 panel sessions included discussion on maternal child health federal and state policy, universal newborn home visiting, rural maternal health access, fetal infant mortality review, maternal mental health, barrier to care and safe sleep/SUIDS.