HHS News Photo -- February 15, 2001

	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

News Photos

February 15, 2001: HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson attended the screening of "A Healthy Start: Begin Before Baby's Born," a film that follows the pregnancies of three women and shows viewers how prenatal care made a difference in their babies' health. The hour-long documentary was produced by award-winning filmmakers Rory Kennedy and Liz Garbus and narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Glenn Close. The film was a joint project of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Lifetime Television and the Ad Council and airs nationally on the Lifetime cable network on February 23. [39K, original = 147K]

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Left to right (seated): Vicky Santiago, Healthy Start outreach worker, Queens, NY; Regina (Gina) Taylor and baby, Tatiana; Peggy Miller (Vicky's sister and Jamie's mother); Kim Nixon, Healthy Start outreach worker, Queens, NY; Jamie Williams and daughter, Savannah.

Left to right (standing): Dr. Claude Earl Fox, HRSA administrator; HHS Secretary Thompson; Dr. Peter van Dyck, HRSA associate administrator for Maternal and Child Health.

Last revised: February 21, 2001