Lari Warren-Jeanpiere, research associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State's School of Medicine, and Dr. Sophie Womack, chief of Neonanatology at Sinai-Grace Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at the medical school, are quoted in a story about the health disparities among the country's ethnically diverse population. Warren-Jeanpiere commented about the importance of mother-daughter communication. She said communication between mothers and their daughters can produce a wealth of health improvements. "If the mother-daughter communication is open and free-flowing, then the woman will feel comfortable speaking with her physician about these same types of intimate issues which will allow in turn the physician to give that woman more comprehensive care." Dr. Womack addressed the issue of high infant mortality rates, especially from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), among African-American babies who are two times more likely to die of SIDS than white babies. According to Womack, six infants per 1,000 births will die in the first year of birth. She pointed out that another contributor to the deaths of African-American babies are the high numbers of premature and low birth weight babies being born to teen mothers who have multiple children. "This has an important impact on why our young children die. They are born too close together and are premature."