Neonatal Justice Collaborative

Promoting neonatal equity & justice through collaboration

July 2022

General Body Gathering

We are excited to host our first NJC General Body virtual meeting on Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11AM PST / 2PM EST.

At our meeting, we will feature an incredible nursing-led Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) initiative named Brave Spaces. This initiative was started by three bedside nurses - Tanya Hatfield, Joy Quilatan, and Natasha Lare - to create a safe, supportive, empathetic, equitable, anti-racist environment for our ICN staff, patients & families. They will discuss the impetus for the work, strategies to get buy-in from the administration, challenges, and successes. We are so excited to learn from their novel work and there will be an opportunity for Q&A.

Meeting links will be emailed to all those on our NJC listserv. If you are interested in the meeting and to join our listserv, click the "INTEREST" button below. Email us with any concerns at neonataljustice@gmail.com.

Committee Corner

Advocacy + Policy

This committee is led by Drs. Diana Montoya- Williams, Ololade Okito, Stephen Patrick, and Valencia Walker.

The subcommittee met in June is working looking for individuals interested in writing or mentoring a trainee to write regional or national op-eds for advocacy on important issues related to neonatal justice. Given that many are new to the op-ed world, the policy and advocacy team is happy to help support you.

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Med Ed + Workforce Diversity

This committee is led by Drs. Uchenna Anani, Michelle Marie Pena, Laura Rubinos, Roopali Bapat, and Elizabeth Bonachea.

The subcommittee's first meeting will be Thursday, July 29th from 11-12PM PST / 2-3PM EST. They will be operationalizing their goals of diversifying the NICU workforce and increasing the exposure of NICU staff to formal curricula on DEI.

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Research

This committee is led by Drs. Alejandra Barrero-Castillero, Animesh Sabnis, Heather Burris, Ashwini Lakshmanan, and Henry Lee.

The inaugural NJC Research Works-in-Progress meeting will be on Wednesday, September 21 from 11:30am-1pm PST / 2:30-4pm EST. The meeting Zoom link, submission details and deadlines for those interested in presenting will be sent to their listserv.

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