Academic Pediatric Association

Home
> Special Interest Groups
> Advocacy Training SIG

Advocacy Training SIG

Special Interest Groups

Membership to Special Interest Groups is open to all APA members.
To join a SIG, click here

Past Events

Advocacy Training SIG at PAS 2012!
Sunday April 29 from 12 - 3 PM.

Dr. Alice Kuo, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and in the Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, to review the recently completed HRSA-funded project of incorporating a public health curriculum into pediatric residency training programs.

A panel discussion by three of the institutions that implemented this curriculum will complement her talk focusing on lessons learned, approaches to integrating the curriculum within each individual institution and successful strategies. Questions from the audience will be encouraged, with the hopes of stimulating similar endeavors.

Oral presentations of two trainee advocacy projects or research in advocacy, and a poster session featuring other trainees! pediatric health related community projects or public policy initiatives will follow.

December 2012 Newsletter Article

We are looking forward to seeing many of you in DC in May!

The Advocacy Training SIG meeting will be held on Saturday May 4 from 8:30 to 11:30 AM. We have a really fun session planned. As we will be in our nation's capital, we are hoping to invite some legislators and/or staffers to participate in a discussion of child and adolescent health advocacy topics and strategies for interaction on a federal policy level. The learning objectives for this session include: 1) discussion of issues in pediatric health policy; 2) understanding policies surrounding the pediatric workforce; 3) exploring strategies for policy fluency - the process for creating a policy agenda, strategies for communicating with legislators, and media training. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn and share advocacy skills and stories. The panel discussion will be followed by oral presentations of trainee advocacy projects, and a poster session featuring a diverse group of educational or community projects or public policy initiatives addressing pediatric health or health care.

This is also our last year as Co-Chairs, so we are looking for members of our SIG to step forward to take the reins next spring. Please let us know if you are interested.

Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to seeing you.

SIG Co-Chairs:
Barbara Bayldon
bbayldon@childrensmemorial.org

Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth.miller@chp.edu

Jennifer DH Walthall
jdhewlet@iupui.edu

Back to Newsletter