Fighting Racism to Advance Child Health Equity

Description

This activity is designed to change competence and performance by focusing on ways to equip pediatricians to advance child health equity by applying an anti-racist lens to the systems shaping health and medicine.

Tools and strategies will be provided to help prepare pediatricians on how to use the power of their platform to address health disparities and help create the conditions that we know support healthier children and families. This educational activity is a chance for pediatricians to come together, get educated, hear that call to be advocates for children and rise up as a community around their diverse pediatric patients to help make sure that they have equitable chances for a healthy future.

These repurposed and expanded educational sessions integrate lectures to impart information efficiently, accompanied by questions to reflect individual inquiry, interactive discussions to foster practice change and transfer knowledge into individual contexts, and problem solving and small group activities to encourage discussion and offer differing perspectives in order to achieve better learning and application.

Learning Objectives:

​Video 1: The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health

• Describe the levels of racism and the re-emergence of racism as a key determinant of health  
• Discuss the potential impacts of discrimination on children and families  
• Incorporate cultural competency, a raising resisters approach to anticipatory guidance, and scientific innovation as key strategies for reducing health disparities 

Video 2: A is for Anti-Racist: How Pediatricians Can Promote Racial Justice Through Clinical Practice 

• Describe how bias and racism impacts children in the healthcare setting  
• Develop an action plan to promote racial justice in your clinical practice 

Video 3: Disrupting Business as Usual: Building a Diverse, Inclusive and Anti-Racist Workforce

• Discuss the importance of diversity in the workforce  
• Explain structural racism and its implications in the clinical environment  
• Identify methods to disrupt business as usual   

Video 4: Pandemics, Policing, Protest On Racism, Child Health and the Urgency to Act

• Discuss data acknowledging the growing trend of inequality  
• Explain interesting forms of violence that threaten and shorten black lives and all lives  
• Discuss the vital importance of protest and a call to act 

Course Details

• Start Date: April 15, 2021
• Online Access Expires: April 14, 2024
• Credit Expires: April 14, 2024
• Activity Type: Asynchronous Online Course
• Course ID: 59426

Acknowledgements

No commercial support.

Faculty

​Maria Trent, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM 
Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, FAAP
Jyothi Marbin, MD, FAAP 
Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, FAAP