Neonatal Justice Collaborative
Promoting neonatal equity & justice through collaboration
May 2024
PAS Event Wrap-Up
We loved connecting with you all at the PAS Neonatal Justice Collaborative (NJC) Meeting, Saturday, May 4, 2024. We announced our new NJC leaders, discussed upcoming events, and networked! Join a listserv and use it to communicate with international colleagues until our next in person reunion!
Mentors Needed
The NJC is building a Health Equity Leadership Scholars Program for post-graduate trainees (pediatric residents & neonatal fellows [PGY2+]) and neonatal nurse practitioner trainees (Masters or Doctorate students) to help mentor and build the next generation of diverse, neonatal health equity scholars, advocates, and changemakers. The aim of this program is to provide a multi-disciplinary curriculum on neonatal health equity and leadership competencies plus concurrent mentorship for career development and scholarship to multidisciplinary trainees entering the neonatal workforce. This will be a 2-year program with monthly virtual didactics and/or case simulations/discussions and will include in-person attendance at NJC-sponsored event at PAS and/or VON. The tentative start date for this program is Summer 2025.
We are seeking volunteers who are interested in serving as a career mentor, research/scholarly mentor, group facilitator, and/or content expert. If you are interested, please see the google form link here to sign-up or email Uche at uchenna.e.anani@vumc.org for more information. Thank you for your consideration!
Next NJC Meeting
Join the next Works in Progress meeting on May 15 with
Dr. Griffin Gorsky, MD MPH - "Leave and Return-to-Work Practices of Mothers of Infants with Prolonged Postnatal Hospitalization"
Dr. Tamika Rhodes, DNP ACCNS-N MSN - "Investigating NICU nurses perceptions of the social determinants of health"
Please consider submitting here for future WIP sessions.
Committee Corner
Subcommittee Election Results!
At our PAS event, we announced who would be filling our eight new leadership roles! Please join us in welcoming Kimberly Novod and Drs. Levi Funches Jr., Kshama Shah, Sarah Swenson, Uchenna Anani, Kaquanta Barlow, Shenell Reynolds, and Michelle-Marie Pena to their new roles! Learn more about each on our team pages.
Advocacy + Policy
This committee is led by new junior leaders Drs. Kshama Shah and Sarah Swenson, new senior leader Dr. Levi Funches, and returning senior leader Dr. Valencia Walker. Stay tuned for their next event!
Get connected to their listserv with the interest button below.
Med Ed + Workforce Diversity
This committee is led by new junior leaders Drs. Kaquanta Barlow and Shenell Reynolds, our previous junior leading serving new senior role Dr. Uche Anani, and returning senior leader Dr. Elizabeth Bonachea.
In case you missed the last Med Ed & Mentoring Speaker Series on March 15 with Dr. Shamita Punjabi on the “Development of a Multi-Site, Action-Based Curriculum for Inequities in Newborn Care Informed by Pediatric Resident and Community Engagement,” check out our YouTube channel to (re)watch! If you're interested in joining the study and implementing this tool at your institution (within either neonatal or pediatric clinical settings), please contact Shamita at spunjabi@stanford.edu.
Quality Improvement
This committee is led by junior leaders Drs. Gaby Cordova Ramos, Nick Heitkamp, and Michelle-Marie Pena (newly transitioned from the Med Ed & Workforce Diversity subcommittee), and lead by senior leaders Drs. Roopali Bapat and Susan Hwang.
If you're interested in joining this subcommittee, indicate your interest via the button below.
Research
This committee is led by junior leaders Drs. Alejandra Barrero-Castillero and Ashlee Vance, and senior leaders Drs. Ashwini Lakshmanan and Henry Lee.
Join the next Works In Project on May 15, 2024. See details above!
Interested in joining the NJC general body or a committee? Tell us here
Contact us at neonataljustice@gmail.com or @NeonatalJustice