Impact of Racism on Child Health moderated by Immediate Past President Raji Koppolu and featuring Drs. Danielle Dooley and Jacqueline Douge of the American Academy of Pediatrics and two of the authors of AAP’s statement on The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health. Watch recording.

Access to Care

Building Resilience in Childhood and Adolescence

Child Maltreatment

Health Needs of LGBTQ+ Youth

Conversations on Child Health Equity is a series of recorded conversations with NAPNAP experts and stakeholders that address key issues related to social determinants of health. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. If podcasts aren’t your thing, you can listen to the conversations on PedsCE^SM. Both options offer .5 contact hours of free CE per episode upon completion of the session evaluation PedsCE^SM.

If you complete the CE activity for all sixteen podcast episodes, you may request a certificate of completion to demonstrate that you have completed the CE requirements for all episodes in the TeamPeds Talks Conversation on Child Health Equity curriculum. 

Social Determinants of Health – free at PedsCE^SM

TeamPeds Talks CE – free at PedsCE^SM

• Incarceration
• Quality of Housing
• Access to Health Care
• Early Childhood Education and Development
• Access to Care Environments
• Access to Primary Care
• The Impact of Air Quality on Child Health

• Five Trainings for Health Professionals to Integrate Racial Equity Into Practice – Public Health Foundation
• Enhancing Diversity in the Workforce – American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• Cultural Competency in Nursing Education – American Association of Colleges of Nursing​
• Diversity & Inclusion Toolkit – National League for Nursing 
• A More Diverse Nursing Workforce – American Journal of Nursing

Child & Adolescent Focused Resources

• Curated list of children’s books by age to guide family discussions on race and racism – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• Sesame Street/CNN Town Hall on Racism

• Talking to Children About Racial Bias by Ashaunta Anderson, MD, MPH, MSHS, FAAP & Jacqueline Dougé, MD, MPH, FAAP

Adult Focused Books

• A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzel
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• Click for additional book recommendations

Adult Focused Podcasts

• What is Black? Hosted by Dr. Jacqueline Douge
• Health and Home with The Hippocratic Hosts, Dr. Lisa Varghese-Kroll and Dr. Lanre Falusi
• Click for additional podcast recommendations

• LGBTQ Youth Resources – Human Rights Campaign
• Healthcare Equality Index – Human Rights Campaign
• Supporting LGBTQ+ youth including suicide prevention and mental health concerns – Trevor Project
• Advocacy tools for LGBTQ+ youth – Advocates for Youth

• CDC’s Health Equity page, which includes resources on chronic diseases, community health, obesity, oral health and tobacco.
• Promoting Health Equity: Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health – CDC

• Pediatrics article “Child Health Disparities: What Can a Clinician Do?” 
• Pediatrics article “The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health”

• Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health – Health Resources and Services Administration
• British Medical Journal Paediatrics Open article “Addressing Inequities in Child Health and Development Towards Social Justice”
• American Medical Association’s COVID-19 Health Equity Resources page, which includes demographic data, policies, resources or minoritized and marginalized communities, health literacy resources for non-English speakers and more.