Find valuable resources on major children's health topics such as asthma, childhood obesity, and child abuse. Resources include links to national and regional organizations, patient handouts, and more.
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Advocacy Cafe
Meeting to Make a Difference.
The Advocacy Café is a weekly small group session that brings students, residents, faculty and visiting professors together to discuss major public health topics, such as childhood asthma obesity.
Residents and students come prepared to discuss a related case, organization, article or bill, and exchange ideas about potential policy changes and solutions.
Sharing and reflecting on health topics and personal experiences are such important aspects of advocacy that both the Advocacy Café and the Advocacy Journal Club are integrated into the required outpatient and elective rotations.
The Café and Journal Club have been made possible thanks to the dedicated faculty of the Division of General Pediatrics at Jefferson and volunteer and guest lecturers, including Michael Campbell, Esq., from Villanova University School of Law and David Paul, MD, from the Department of Neonatology at Christiana Hospital.
"I never would have known how simple things like what box I check off on a government-issued health form can determine whether a patient qualifies for medical assistance."
Joe Valdez
Jefferson Medical College student
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For more information about the JeffSTARS program and health advocacy, please contact Dr. Chung at echung@nemours.org or 215-861-8834.
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