2505 - Improving Global Child/Adolescent Health through Innovations in Equity, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization

Chair(s)

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  Suzinne Pak-Gorstein, MD PhD MPH (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  Pediatrics / Global Health
  University of Washington School of Medicine
  Seattle, Washington, United States
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  Gary Darmstadt

  Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health, Professor
  Stanford University School of Medicine
  Bellevue, Washington, United States

Major global health organizations have called on practitioners, educators, and researchers to reflect on their practices and take action to be anti-racist and to decolonize global health (GH). Calls for reforms have included individual efforts to self-reflect and question their practices; institutional commitments to address equity, diversity, and inclusion in the composition of leadership and authorship; and revamp of power structures that determine the prioritization and flow of GH funds. Academic medical centers are particularly key in these efforts since they work at the intersection of clinical care, research policy, and medical education, and their faculty and trainees engage in many GH partnerships. This panel of experts will discuss efforts and innovations from key pediatric groups to address these challenges. Efforts to decolonize global health partnerships in research and education will be discussed, including the AAP open-source curriculum ‘Global Health Education for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization (GHEARD)’.

Presentations:

• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM US MT

  The American Academy of Pediatric work to improve global child health by addressing equity, anti-racism, and decolonization
  

  Speaker: Janna Patterson, MD, MPH – American Academy of Pediatrics
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM US MT

  Priorities in global partnerships to improve global child health by addressing equity, anti-racism, and decolonization
  

  Speaker: Victor Musiime, MBChB, MMed, PhD – Makerere University
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM US MT

  Building skills to address racism, colonization, and child health inequities: The GHEARD curriculum
  

  Speaker: Amy R. Rule, MD MPH – Cincinnati Children's
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM US MT

  Building skills to address racism, colonization, and child health inequities: The GHEARD curriculum
  

  Speaker: Heather Haq, MD, MHS – Baylor College of Medicine