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GET INVOLVED

ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC PROGRAM DIRECTORS (APPD)

Every year, global health educators from all across the country submit abstracts of their work in education and curriculum development domestically and abroad at the APPD Spring Meeting.

Interested in engaging in GH Education projects with the APPD?

Email our current chair, Amy Rule at amy.rule@emory.edu

Consider staying up to date with the latest information in our WhatsApp group.

Email Anik Patel at apatel6@cmh.edu for more information.

Current projects

Exploring Bidirectionality in Pediatric GH Programs Workgroup (Leads: Anik Patel, Megan McHenry)
- This group aims to describe perspectives regarding the concept of "bidirectionality" by US pediatric global health providers
GLObal Health Partnership And Collaboration Tool (GLO-PACT) Workgroup (Leads: Anik Patel, Lisa Umphrey)
- This group aims to create a new tool to help build new or potential GH partnerships and to assess exisiting GH partnerships
National Study of Pediatric Global Health Fellows Workgroup (Leads: Anik Patel, Lisa Umphrey)
- This group aims to assess career outcomes of former pediatric GH fellows as well as describe benefits and challenges during pediatric GH fellowship
Academic Equity Workgroup (Lead: Brittany Murray, Lisa Umphrey, Rachel Bensman)
- This group aims to better describe inequity experienced by our partners in conferences, publications and more in academic pediatrics
Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) in Leadership Workgroup (Leads: Adelaide Barnes, Heather Haq, Viv Leuche)
- This group will develop a study evaluating how to better support URM in global health education
Residency Pathways and Tracks Workgroup (Leads: Clea Sarnquist, Viv Leuche)
- This group will develop a study to look at career outcomes and reflection after completion of residency pathway.
Updating the ABP Program Director's Guide to Global Health (Lead: Nikki St. Clair)
- https://www.abp.org/content/global-health-program-directors-guide-introduction

welcome to the newest GHLC members!

Faysal Saab (Med/Peds and Global Health Attending): UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Vivianne Leuche (Pediatric Emergency Medicine/Global Health Attending): University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Rachel Bensman (Pediatric Emergency Medicine/Global Health Attending): Cincinnati Children's, Cincinnati, OH
Rebecca Mercedes (Clinical Post-Doc Fellow, Peds GI): Texas Children's, Houston, TX

APPD 2019 Spring Meeting GH Events and Abstracts.docx

See the abstracts that were presented at the 2024 spring appd Meeting!

Click on the document to the left to read about all of the GH presentations including the full abstracts

Support the global pediatric educator scholarship

Help us provide a scholarship opportunity for pediatric educators in low and middle income countries!

As members of the APPD Global Health Learning Community we are privileged to meet pediatric educators from around the globe who seek to improve child health by advancing pediatric education in their countries. We know that continued efforts to improve global child health in part depend on the development of a high quality pediatric workforce through quality training programs. We are also aware of the resources we enjoy through APPD, a community that encourages us to improve our teaching and education research, and provides us with like-minded colleagues, mentors, and career development opportunities.

Thanks to dozens of generous donors over the past few years, we have hosted pediatric educators from Laos, Ghana, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Mozambique, Guatemala, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, and Malawi.

Hosting them at the meeting and hearing about their work was inspiring!

We are now raising funds to bring additional pediatric educators to next year’s Spring Meeting.

Estimated costs are $3700 per awardee. To donate online go to: