Title: Advancing pediatric health equity: A personal journey

Dr. Fuentes-Afflick will present a summary of her professional journey and her approach to advancing pediatric health equity through research and organizational engagement. As a group, we will discuss and consider organizational and institutional approaches to advancing health equity.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize how health equity can be advanced through research and organizational engagement.
• Describe my approach to promoting pediatric health equity through research and organizational engagement.
• Discuss organizational and institutional approaches to advancing health equity.

Workshop 1

Speakers: Dr.Yarden Fraiman and Dr. Jessica Addison

Title: The Data Dilemma: Best practices for collecting demographic and language data across the pediatric life-course

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the complexities of demographic data collection, including race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The workshop will include collaborative discussion, and participants should come prepared to learn together, in community, from one another. This workshop will be relevant to a broad audience including clinicians, researchers, and administrators by highlighting the importance of accurate data collection for clinical care, research, and quality improvement.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a shared understanding of (a) race as a social construct and (b) identity formation across the pediatric life-course.
• Discuss best practices for collecting demographic and language information across the life-course.
• Identify common obstacles in collecting demographic and language data and discuss strategies for overcoming these challenges.

Workshop 2

Speakers: Dr. Meg Parker and Dr. Sarabeth Broder-Fingert

Title: Conducting Research with Individuals with Marginalized Identities

In this workshop we will review key themes in conducting research with individuals from marginalized communities and identities. We will include case studies for participants to review and discuss.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe best practices to include when developing research instruments/approach when including marginalized populations in the study.
• Appraise methods to recruit of individuals from marginalized populations, who are your research population of interest.
• Examine institutional structural issues and barriers and some approaches to address these for conducting research.

Workshop 3

Speakers: Dr. Natalie Slopen and Logan Beyer

Title: Applied Data and Methods: Studying Pediatric Health Disparities with Public Datasets

This workshop will equip pediatric clinicians and researchers with practical strategies to study health disparities in children. We will review key cross-sectional and longitudinal datasets available for pediatric health research, compare analytic methods to measure disparities, and share strategies for matching research questions with the most appropriate data sources and analysis techniques. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to efficiently access data and apply quantitative methods to generate impactful, equity-focused research.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify major publicly accessible datasets (cross-sectional and longitudinal) suitable for pediatric health disparities research, including their strengths, weaknesses, and access considerations.
• Compare analytic methods for characterizing health disparities, including descriptive and association methods, difference-in-differences, and geospatial analysis.
• Match research questions with the most appropriate data sources and analytic methods to effectively investigate specific pediatric health equity topics of interest.

Workshop 4

Speakers: Dr. Sabra Katz-Wise and Dr. Snehal Shah

Title: Best Practices for Engaging and Partnering with Communities in Health Research

In this interactive workshop, we will provide an overview of key concepts of community engagement and partnership in research. Then, we will review methods of engaging and partnering with communities in research throughout all phases of the research lifecycle. Finally, we will discuss challenges of community engagement and partnership in research and identify strategies to overcome these challenges. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to learn from each other about different ways in which communities can be engaged in health research.

Learning Objectives:

• Define community engagement and partnership in research.
• Identify methods of engaging and partnering with communities in research.
• Summarize challenges of working with communities on research and strategies to overcome these challenges.