Mr. Diao is the coordinator of African Services’ Infant Mortality Reduction Initiative, a program that aims to improve maternal and child health in Harlem and the Bronx through community outreach and health education to new and expectant African immigrant mothers. In this role, Amadou conducts multilingual outreach and provides referral to care, hospital escort, medical interpretation and home visits to pre- and post-natal women. Through community conversations and individual counseling he shares information and resources to support home safety, safe sleep practices, breastfeeding and nutrition that will improve health outcomes for children. Amadou has extensive experience in community health education and previously worked as a risk reduction counselor with HIV positive individuals. He holds certificates in community health education, as well as HIV counseling and testing and phlebotomy. Before settling in the U.S., Amadou worked for 12 years in the Senegalese Protestant Church as a health promoter conducting workshops in parenting and as a French and Wolof teacher. Originally from Senegal, he speaks Wolof, French and some Arabic, in addition to English.