The Center for Health Equity & Community Wellness (CHECW) seeks to eliminate racial and other inequities resulting in premature mortality. With an unwavering grounding in history and structural analysis, CHECW works to increase visibility of the harm perpetuated by centuries of racist, socially unjust policy while pushing towards redress for the most impacted NYC communities. CHECW addresses inequity across community and healthcare systems in partnership with community, faith-based, and health care organizations. CHECW's work focuses on social determinants of health, including environmental and commercial determinants, and addresses both upstream and downstream factors to improve health and well-being of New Yorkers. CHECW is comprised of the Bureau of Bronx Neighborhood Health, the Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health, the Bureau of Harlem Neighborhood Health, the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention, the Bureau of Health Equity Capacity Building, the Bureau of Equitable Health Systems, and the Bureau of Finance, Administration and Services. The division's Deputy Commissioner also serves as the Agency's Chief Medical Officer. The Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health; Formerly known as the Brooklyn Neighborhood Action Centers, the Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health will continue to provide oversight and leadership in programming and planning for the Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center with satellite programming and planning also occurring at the Bedford and Bushwick District Health Officers. This bureau will support programming, planning and research opportunities to address racial inequities resulting in premature mortality in Central Brooklyn. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) implements a Citywide Doula Initiative, which focuses on doula support before, during, and shortly after childbirth, as well as related services. This work is performed by DOHMH directly and in partnership with community-based doula programs around the city. The program strengthens DOHMH's work with maternity hospital though the Maternity Hospital Quality Improvement Network (MHQIN), which creates doula-friendly hospital policies and practices, and increases provider quality improvement program implementation leadership and coalition building support by providing program management implementing the doula-friendly hospital model within NYC maternity hospitals and oversight of the New York Coalition for Doula Access (NYCDA).