The Voices for Healthy Kids team hosted its annual preemption convening on November 19 and 20, 2024, in Cincinnati, OH. 40 attendees representing 23 states, and a breadth of issue areas, including public health, housing, economic and environmental justice, civic engagement, and tobacco use, were in attendance.

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“Socioeconomic status is very important, however, I am surprised that it appears to explain the majority of the differences in cardiovascular health two to seven years after giving birth,” Huang said. “For some people, their socioeconomic status probably doesn’t change that much during this period. So, if in an ideal society we could have similar socioeconomic status across racial-ethnic groups, then most of the disparities in cardiovascular health may be eliminated.”