Advocacy
Child Abuse & Neglect
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Emergency Medicine
General Pediatrics
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Andrea Asnes, MD, MSW (she/her/hers)
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Hiu-fai Fong, MD, MSHP (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ashaunta Anderson, MD, MPH, MSHS (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Tiffani Johnson, MD, Mac (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Sacramento, California, United States
Session
Description: Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System: Causes, Consequences, and SolutionsRacial and ethnic minority children are disproportionately represented in the U.S. child welfare system. Individual, institutional, and systemic factors in healthcare, child welfare, and beyond contribute to this disproportionality. In this program, a multidisciplinary group of speakers will examine the problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system, highlight multi-level contributors, and share promising solutions. First, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and researcher will present evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in the medical evaluation of child physical abuse and describe emerging healthcare-based interventions to reduce these disparities. Second, a child abuse pediatrician with federal advocacy expertise will provide a historical perspective about how national and local policies have contributed to racial and ethnic disproportionality – e.g., through the abuse to prison pipeline and the differing federal responses to the 1980s crack epidemic and the more recent opioid epidemic. Third, policy analysts from the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality will discuss structural racism in social safety net programs and how it contributes to racial and ethnic disproportionality in the U.S. child welfare system. They will highlight ways in which social safety net programs can be reimagined to counteract the impact of structural racism.
SIG Speaker: Mary Clyde Pierce – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
SIG Speaker: Allison M. Jackson, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Children's National Hospital
SIG Speaker: Ayan F. Goran, MSc – Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
SIG Speaker: Adiam Tesfaselassie (she/her/hers) – Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequalities