StAT (Stanford Advocacy Track) Program
StAT Program Director—Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH
StAT Program Coordinator—Janine Bishop, MPH
All interested LPCH pediatric residents may elect to participate in the StAT program. The StAT program provides residents with specialized advocacy traning and the opportunity to develop individual advocacy projects. StAT Projects: Residents work with the advocacy director to identify a community partner/organization with whom to work and establish a partnership during the intern year. The specific project focus is designed to meet community partner needs. During the junior and senior years, the project is developed and implemented. Throughout the course of the project, residents will acquire a variety of advocacy skills that can be applied to their future endeavors. Residents will receive additional time to work on their advocacy project during the StAT Adolescent Medicine and Advocacy Rotations (PGY2).
STAT Skills:
- Understanding the rules of community engagement
- Developing a needs assessment
- Asset mapping
- Grant writing
- IRB
- Evaluation
- Writing abstracts
- Presenting at national meetings
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 Lite projects can include a health presentation, community resource guide, needs assessment, etc.
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.
StAT Foundation Tutorials
- Introduction to StAT (Stanford Advocacy Track) with Lisa Chamberlain
- Health disparities with Lisa Chamberlain
- International Health with Paul Wise, MD, MPH (Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention)
- Strengths and limitations of interviews, focus groups and surveys with Michaela Kiernan, PhD (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
- Accessing secondary data through Kidsdata.org with Andrew Krackov (Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health)
- Journal club discussion with Lisa Chamberlain
Advocacy Sessions
- Legislative advocacy with the AAP in Sacramento with Kris Calvin ( American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Legislative advocacy at children’s hospitals with Sherri Sager (Director of Government Relations, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital)
- Working with foundations with Sharon Keating-Beauregard and Ann Rose (Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health)
Career Development Sessions
- Developing vision with Anda Quo, MD, MPH (Director, UCSF PLUS ( Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved) Program
- Careers in pediatric advocacy with Lisa Chamberlain
- Processing grants and gifts through academic institutions
Special '06 Activities
- Santa Clara County Food Security Workshop with the UC Cooperative Extension
- UCSF Grand Rounds “Pediatric AIDS in Zimbabwe”
- REACH “Oral Health” (Research Education and Advocacy in Community Health) noon conference with Jodie Ruland (Dental Health Foundation)
Past stat Projects:
- Healthy nutrition and physical activity for Head Start students
- Medical Homes for Incarcerated Youth
- Teen Pregnancy in Filipino Youth
- Obesity prevention in East San Jose
- Increasing outreach to uninsured children
The resident advocacy award winner traveled to Washington, DC to meet with congressional members at NACHRI Conference (Feb. 2004)
