Pediatric advocacy: Advancement in academic institutions.
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2024-05
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Children are facing many threats to their health today that require system change at a sweeping level to have real-world impact. Pediatricians are positioned as natural leaders to advocate for these critical community and policy changes. Academic medical center (AMC) leaders recognize the importance of this advocacy and clear steps can be taken to improve the structure to support pediatricians in their advocacy careers through faculty development and promotion, including standardized scholarly measurement of the outcomes.Type
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Bode, Sara M, Eimaan Anwar, Debra L Best, Mona Patel, Lee S Beers, Jeffrey M Kaczorowski, Barry S Solomon, Lisa J Chamberlain, et al. (2024). Pediatric advocacy: Advancement in academic institutions. Pediatric research, 95(6). pp. 1476–1479. 10.1038/s41390-023-02997-1 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/32403.
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Debra Lynn Best
The tenets of advocacy have been intentionally woven into my work in all domains from clinical service to education to scholarship. Defined broadly by Earnest, et.al., advocacy is “activity that promotes the social, economic, educational, and political changes that ameliorate threats to human health and advance the well-being of people”. Under that umbrella, the foci that I have pursued through the years have been varied, ranging from childhood obesity prevention to teen parenting to universal newborn home visiting. Currently, my area of focus is in supporting early relational health and social emotional development. Throughout each endeavor, I have focused on lifting the voices of those in marginalized populations and intentionally partnering with the community to provide holistic approaches to meet both medical and psychosocial needs of individuals.
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