Neonatal Justice Collaborative
Promoting neonatal equity & justice through collaboration
March 2024
Med Ed & Mentoring
Speaker Series
We are excited to host our next NJC Med Education & Mentoring Speaker Series on Friday, March 15th at 2pm EST, 1pm CST, featuring Dr. Shamita Punjabi, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. Dr. Punjabi will be sharing with us her work entitled, “Development of a Multi-Site, Action-Based Curriculum for Inequities in Newborn Care Informed by Pediatric Resident and Community Engagement.”
Dr. Shamita Punjabi works at Stanford Medicine Children's Health, working as neonatal hospitalist in the Level 2 Nursery and pediatric hospitalist at Stanford-affiliated community sites. Dr. Punjabi has worked alongside her colleagues in the newborn units to develop a grant-funded action-based health equity curriculum for trainees which has been recognized and shared across pediatrics institutions nationally. This curriculum was developed in conjunction with 3 Northern California Pediatric residency programs and the expert input of community partners from 3 patient-centered organizations. Dr. Punjabi looks forward to sharing the highlight of this curriculum with the NJC: an action-based health equity tool used in the clinical setting, which can be utilized widely across multi-disciplinary teams and all levels of training
We Want You!
The Neonatal Justice Collaborative is looking for individuals to join our executive committee in junior or senior leadership roles. Learn more about the positions and the expectations via the slides (click to expand in new tab). Indicate your interest below.
Research Round-up
On February 21, we held our resaerch Works-In-Progress session where Dr. Erin Von Klein shared her work on "Employment Decision-Making Among Caregivers of Preterm, Low Birth Weight Infants" and Dr. Aniekan Udoko "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates Among U.S.-born Preterm Infants." Please consider submitting here for future WIP sessions.
Stay up to date on Research committee news with this quarterly Research Newsletter, a place to receive and share information to make your neonatal justice research work sustainable and impactful.
Committee Corner
Advocacy + Policy
This committee is led by Drs. Diana Montoya- Williams, Ololade Okito, Stephen Patrick, and Valencia Walker.
The last Spotlight an Advocate series on January 31 featured Dr. Emily Miller. By hearing Dr. Miller's career path and how she "connected the dots," our 29 participants were better able to envision how their career as a health equity advocate may look. Dr. Miller highlighted additional training she's received address the political determinants of health through the APA Health Policy Scholars Program. She shared the incredible work in Cincinnati with Cradle Cincinnati and Queen's Village that is done "by the community, in the community, and for the community."
Get connected to their listserv with the interest button below.
Med Ed + Workforce Diversity
This committee is led by Drs. Uchenna Anani, Michelle Marie Pena, Laura Rubinos, and Elizabeth Bonachea.
Next of Med Ed and Workforce Diversity meeting is 3/15 featuring health equity work shared by Dr. Shamita Punjabi, a Clinical Assistant Professor in the division of Neonatal & Developmental Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine Children's Health. Register for this event here. If you're interested in joining this subcommittee and receiving event invitations, indicate your interest via the button below.
Quality Improvement
This committee is led by Drs. Gaby Cordova Ramos, Nick Heitkamp, Roopali Bapat, Susan Hwang, and Animesh Sabnis.
Hopefully you were able to attend 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. Sabins, Walker, and Montoya-Williams speak.
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.
The last Work-In-Progress meeting was on 2/21. Sign up to present at the enxt event to.
Receive constructive feedback from a diverse group of Neonatal health equity enthusiasts and families across the country,
Gain experience conducting research skillfully and presenting your research to a national audience or researchers,
Provide useful feedback to peers regarding research,
Advancing health equity, antiracism and social in justice in Neonatology through collaboration in research projects and connecting with experts around the country.
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Contact us at neonataljustice@gmail.com or @NeonatalJustice