Research, Advocacy, & Policy

Guide to designing your RAP Session

2020-2021

• Youth Violence Prevention- Dr. Lawrence Chang - RAP Recap

2018-2019

• Closing the Higher Education Gap for Low-Income and First-Generation Students (Betty Collada) - Agenda

• Hunting for Housing: Understanding the Intricacies of Affordable Housing and Housing Policy (Avital Ludomirksy) - Agenda

• Inspiring and Making Change through Research Advocacy and Policy (Yuan He) - Agenda

• There’s No Place Like Home- How where you live impacts your health (Daria Murosko) - Agenda

• Weight Bias (Hannah Barber Doucet) - Agenda

• Economic Policies and Behavior: A focus on sugar sweetened beverages (Kelsey Egan) - Agenda

• Distributive Justice and Health (Jeff Campbell) - Agenda

• Research as Advocacy (Dan Shapiro) - Agenda

• Caring for children with complex medical needs outside of the hospital: A visit to Franciscans Children’s Hospital (Arielle Spellun) - Agenda

• Adolescent sexual health education, access and advocacy (Sara Holmstrom) - Agenda

• The school to prison pipeline: what pediatricians can do (Destiny Tolliver)- Agenda

2017-2018

2016-2017

• Food Insecurity and Project Planning (Tracy Seimears)

• Advocacy through Film (Zeena Audi)

• Focus Groups and Targeted Interviewing (Neeru Narla) 

• Accountable Care Organizations, Value-based Care, and the Jobs to be Done Framework (Ravi Raju)

• Living in the US on <$2/day and Legislative Bootcamp (Igor Shumskiy)

• Writing for the Public (Lucy Marcil)

• The Refugee and Immigrant Experience (Drisana Henry)

2015-2016

• Caring for Yourself, Caring for Others: Mindfulness as a tool for pediatric residents (Alexandra Coria)

• Understanding Implicit Bias and Racism in Practice (Camila Mateo)

• Health Needs of Unaccompanied Minors: Developing a youth-centered intervention (Emily Allen & Christine Cheston)

• School Based Health and Designing a Needs Assessment (Caitlin Woo-Pierce) - More here.

• Children's Health Watch (Ioana Baiu)

• Media Advocacy and Public Speaking (Elyse Portillo)

2014-2015

• Environmental Justice and Youth Organizing in Boston (Davida Schiff)

• Caring for LGBT Patients and Parents / Designing Research to Impact Policy (Emily Allen)

• Disability Advocacy / Intro to Program Mapping and Evaluation (Blake Windsor)

• Why Should Pediatricians Care about Climate Change? (Curt Nordgaard)

• Caring for Children with Medical Complexity in our Community / Narrative Medicine & Advocacy (Elliot Rabinowitz)

• Immigration Law & Advocacy 101: A Pediatrician's Guide (Christine Cheston)

• Innovation in Pediatrics (Jessica Gaulton)

• Environmental Impact of Hospitals on Local/Global Communities (Alla Smith)

• Health Systems Redesign and Care Integration: Moving toward accountable care (Alon Peltz)

2013-2014

• Sickle Cell Advocacy in Boston (Maya Illowite)

• A Hidden Problem: Human Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Julia Michie)

• Pediatric Obesity: Teaching Healthy Behaviors in Childhood to Prevent Preventable Disease in Adulthood (Dan Perry)

• Inside / Outside: Key Skills for Physician Advocates (Eli Sprecher)

• Health Policy at the Hospital, Community, and Federal Level (Lie Tjoeng)

• Housing and Its Impact on Health (Marissa Hauptman)

• Getting Kids Active, Outside, and Healthy (Natalie Stavas)

• Healthcare Economics and Cost Effectiveness (Stephanie Doupnik)

2012-2013

• Immigration Policy and Reform (Rachel Stein)

• Preventing Perinatal HIV Transmission (Nilli Paydar-Darian) 

• Innovative Models of Ambulatory Care (Carolyn Walsh)

• School Based Health (Gwen Wilson)

• Understanding Human Rights: Pediatricians' Perspectives

• Careers in Global Health (Asya Agulnik)

• Telehealth and mHealth: Innovative Technologies to Improve Health in our Local and Global Communities (Laura Johnson)

• Health and Healthcare of Incarcerated Youth (Lili Peacock-Chambers)

• Community Health Workers at Home and Abroad (Jon Hatoun)

• Healthcare Reform: Cost Containment and Implications for Clinical Management (Lyra Birch)