Advocacy in Adversarial Times: Lessons Learned from the Florida and Texas Collaboratives to Address Legislative Challenges

Monday, May 6, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 604

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Leader(s)

Jamee Walters, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Slides

Co-Leader(s)

Sandra McKay, MD

Associate Professor
Pediatrics
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Missouri City, Texas, United States
Nancy Kelly, MD MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas, United States
Jaya Surujdyal, DO (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Hospitalist
Orlando Health
Orlando, Florida, United States

Disclosure(s):

Jamee Walters, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Sandra McKay, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Nancy R. Kelly, MD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jaya Surujdyal, DO: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop

Description: Promoting pro-child health legislation can be difficult in the setting of controversial state legislation. Advocacy collaboratives that involve multiple institutions provide a way to pool resources together to successfully address these issues, especially within the time constraints of a busy clinician. Facilitators for the Florida and Texas collaborative will describe the creation of the collaboratives, their purpose and their role in shaping and addressing policy when confronted with controversial legislation. This interactive workshop will guide participants to conduct stakeholder analysis at their home institutions, discuss ways to build collaboration in their own state, and develop skills around speaking to a legislator.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the creation of the TX and FL advocacy collaboratives, their purpose and their role in shaping and addressing policy and discuss the roles of collaboratives in addressing policy.
Undergo a stakeholder analysis to determine the key influencers to policy programs.
Review strategies utilized when confronted with controversial legislative policy, how those strategies can be implemented, and how to navigate within the boundaries of an academic and/or hospital institution.