Neonatal Justice Collaborative
Promoting neonatal equity & justice through collaboration
January 2024
Start 2024 on the Right Foot
Join us for our first General Body Meeting of 2024, Wednesday, January 10, 2-3PM EST as we discuss Health Equity Rounds in NICU. Kathryn Paul and Daria Murosko will lead the discussion to explore topics including
Have you participated in NICU health equity rounds?
What was your experience?
What were the strengths? What were the challenges?
If you need the Zoom link, join our listserv below or email RSVP@neojusticecollab.com.
December Works-In-Progress: Recap
Dr. Meg Barcroft, a dual fellow in Neonatal-Perinatal medicine and Quality & Safety Leadership at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, presented her work in progress at the Research Subcommittee meeting December 6, on "Validating infant demographics within a regional NICU Network: An equity-focused quality improvement initiative."
As a crucial first step to assess local clinical outcomes, her work looks at improving local demographic information to evaluate local inequities and inform local improvement efforts to combat infant mortality disparities. Her baseline work found a large proportion had infant race as Guardian Unavailable to Answer (GUA). Her presentation outlining successes and challenges encountered along the journey towards improving the assessment and documentation of infant demographic engaged over 30 attendees.
Interested in presenting at and gaining feedback from the next WIP? Sign-up here.
PQI Presentation
On, November 30, Drs. Uchenna Anani and Kayla Karvonen presented a webinar to the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement (PQI) entitled "Promoting Neonatal Equity and Justice through the Neonatal Justice Collaborative." During this talk, our leaders (1) Described why the Neonatal Justice Collaborative (NJC) was formed, (2) Outlined the mission and goals of the NJC, (3) Discussed how to get involved in neonatal equity work through collaborative efforts like the NJC. Over 100 atteendees joined the webinar and gained some new NJC members!
Committee Corner
Advocacy + Policy
This committee is led by Drs. Diana Montoya- Williams, Ololade Okito, Stephen Patrick, and Valencia Walker.
Consider attending the 5th Annual Whitney Rawn Cale Endowed Lectureship at UCLA on February 7, 2024 entitled “Addressing Disparities in Maternal, Fetal, and Neonatal Health” and hear Drs. Walker and Montoya-Williams speak in-person. The goal of this year's conference is to provide expert education on health care disparities and identify and implement actionable ways to address these disparities in clinical care, research, scholarly activities, and medical education. The conference has hands-on workshops in the morning, in-person talks in the afternoon. Register here for in person or here for an afternoon webinar.
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Med Ed + Workforce Diversity
This committee is led by Drs. Uchenna Anani, Michelle Marie Pena, Laura Rubinos, and Elizabeth Bonachea.
Read the "PQI Presentation" blurb highlighting some of the awesome work Dr. Anani is doing with NJC. Stay tuned for upcoming events!
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Quality Improvement
This committee is led by Drs. Gaby Cordova Ramos, Nick Heitkamp, Roopali Bapat, Susan Hwang, and Animesh Sabnis.
Consider attending the 5th Annual Whitney Rawn Cale Endowed Lectureship at UCLA on February 7, 2024 entitled “Addressing Disparities in Maternal, Fetal, and Neonatal Health” and hear Dr. Sabins speak in-person. The goal of this year's conference is to provide expert education on health care disparities and identify and implement actionable ways to address these disparities in clinical care, research, scholarly activities, and medical education. The conference has hands-on workshops in the morning, in-person talks in the afternoon. Register here for in person or here for an afternoon webinar.
If you're interested in joining this subcommittee, indicate your interest via the button below.
Research
This committee is led by Drs. Alejandra Barrero-Castillero, Ashlee Vance, Heather Burris, Ashwini Lakshmanan, and Henry Lee.
Read the "December Works-In-Progress: Recap" to learn about Dr. Meg Barcroft's presentation on "Validating infant demographics within a regional NICU Network: An equity-focused quality improvement initiative." Sign up above to gain experience and feedback by presenting at the next WIP!
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Contact us at neonataljustice@gmail.com or @NeonatalJustice