Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Category C: Pediatric Healthcare Clinicians - AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: PROJECT ABSTRACT Category C: Pediatric Healthcare Clinicians The public health system is a complex network that includes various agencies, organizations, and individuals, all playing crucial roles in influencing population health. Pediatric health care clinicians play a critical role within this infrastructure, especially considering the challenges confronting children's health, including health disparities, infectious diseases, chronic conditions and non-communicable diseases, environmental health and toxic exposures, and emerging health threats and global health security. As trusted members of children's care teams, pediatricians are well-positioned to tackle health disparities and participate in community-based activities to improve children's health and well-being. Capacity building assistance (CBA) is crucial for enhancing pediatricians' skills to meet the complex needs of children and families, including learning to interpret public health data, lead community initiatives, and evaluate program outcomes effectively. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a national professional association comprised of more than 67,000 pediatricians committed to its mission of attaining optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The AAP has extensive experience providing CBA to pediatricians to support their efforts to address the complex and numerous challenges that threaten the health and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, young adults, and families. The purpose of the proposed Category C: Public Health System Components - Pediatric Health Care Clinicians program is to provide CBA to pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, pediatric surgical specialists, and other pediatric clinicians (hereafter referred to as pediatricians) who work in a variety of practice settings to improve the public health system for children and families within the communities where they live, learn, work, and play. Proposed activities seek to improve organizational and systems infrastructure and performance across the public health system to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities for children and families. The AAP will provide CBA within the following strategies: 1) organizational capacity and performance improvement to strengthen the ability of the AAP national offices (Itasca, IL | Washington, DC) and chapters to engage pediatricians in basic public health infrastructure; 2) workforce to develop and maintain a robust pediatric workforce with interdisciplinary skills and competencies; 3) data modernization, informatics, and information technology to develop and deploy scalable, responsive, and sustainable technologies, policies, and methods to implement high-quality data and analytical capabilities to support the Essential Public Health Services; 4) partnership development and engagement to improve development and maintenance of results-driven partnerships across the public health systems that serve children and families; and 5) policy and program activities to develop, improve, and use evidence-based and promising practices in policies, processes, and programs to improve maternal and child health, addressing disparities, and fostering equity. The AAP has been privileged to work closely with the CDC for more than two decades, and has demonstrated its capability, expertise, resources, and national reach in CBA for pediatricians across numerous projects and a wide range of child health topics. The proposed activities will strengthen the capacity of pediatricians to address pressing public health needs facing children and families, thereby leading to a more current, competent, connected public health system; improved delivery of essential public health services; and improved pediatric health outcomes related to the Healthy People 2030 national objectives.
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