Stanford Advocacy Track (StAT)
StAT Program Summary
StAT Medical Director: Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH
StAT Program Director: Janine Bishop, MPH
StAT Community Faculty: Elizabeth Baca, MD, MPA
StAT SKILLS:
Rules of community engagement
Conducting needs assessments
Asset mapping
Grant writing
IRB submission
Evaluation
Writing abstracts
Presenting at national meetings
ADVOCACY AWARD WINNERS
2008 - Arti Desai
2007 - Maria Mosquera
2006 - Heather Iezza
2005 - Anisha Patel
2004 - Joyce Javier
2003 - Arash Anoshiravani
The StAT program provides residents with specialized advocacy traning and the opportunity to develop individual advocacy projects.
Program Objectives:
Community Engagement: Gain knowledge and skills in effective community engagement, applying the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to develop strong collaborations and meet community identified needs.
Program Planning and Evaluation: Acquire expertise in the development and execution of a sound program plan (assessment, implementation, evaluation), which may result in systems and policy change.
Research: Develop strong skills in community-based research, using qualitative and quantitative research strategies to conduct needs assessments and evaluate intervention programs.
Funding: Submit a grant for funding
Dissemination: Disseminate findings locally in collaboration with community partners, and nationally at academic pediatrics and public health conferences.
StAT Projects
The advocacy faculty work with resident individually to identify a community partner/organization with whom to work and establish a collaborative partnership. The project focus is designed to meet community partner needs and resident interests. Throughout the course of the project, residents will acquire a variety of advocacy skills that can be applied to future community and academic endeavors. For more information see StAT Timeline and list of Current/Past StAT Projects)
StAT Lite
Residents may elect to do a StAT Lite project, which is a smaller scale advocacy project. This project can be conducted at any time during the resident's residency.
StAT Rotation
The StAT rotation is a specialized month long rotation at LPCH designed to provide pediatric advocacy residents with a foundation in child advocacy and health disparities. The StAT rotation includes the below StAT foundation tutorials, advocacy and career development sessions, and protected time to work on individual advocacy projects. A StAT rotation highlight is the trip to Sacramento to learn about legislative advocacy through the American Academy of Pediatrics. For more information see StAT Rotation Overview.
