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Thank you to the hundreds of attendees at our Rapid Response Data Briefing on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). Check out the webinar to learn about PRAMS and the risks it's facing. Make sure to submit comments about why PRAMS is essential by 1/20/26. tinyurl.com/PRAMS-FRN

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Rapid Response Data Briefing: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Did you know the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is up for renewal? With the April 2025 layoff of the entire CDC team that managed PRAMS and disruptions to PRAMS data access and publication, the open Federal Register Notice—accepting public comments until January 20, 2026—offers an important opportunity to emphasize the value of this dataset. (You can read the full notice here: https://tinyurl.com/PRAMS-FRN). In this Rapid Response Data Briefing, speakers explain: - What's in PRAMS - Why PRAMS is important - The risks facing its continued collection and publication - How you can help support this essential data resource Speakers include: - Dr. Rita Hamad, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Public Policy at Harvard School of Public Health - Dr. Michael Warren, Chief Medical and Health Officer at March of Dimes - Denice Ross, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist - Meghan Maury, former Senior Advisor for Data Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy The webinar is moderated by Beth Jarosz, Vice President of the Association of Public Data Users. This Rapid Response Data Briefing is brought to you by dataindex.us, Association of Public Data Users, Population Reference Bureau, March of Dimes, and Population Association of America. https://tinyurl.com/PRAMS-webinar-recording