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Electoral Advocacy Panel Discussion: How Healthcare Providers-in-Training Can Get Involved
October 29 @ 8:00 pm–9:00 pm EDT
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
🕗 Time: 8:00 – 9:00 PM (ET) / 5:00 – 6:00 PM (PT)
📍 Location: Register via Zoom
Session Overview
In this election year, join us for an essential Electoral Advocacy Panel Discussion, the first of a three-part speaker series designed specifically for healthcare providers-in-training. This session provides a unique opportunity to learn how electoral advocacy can shape your career, impact patient care, and enhance your role in the healthcare system.
Why Attend?
As a future healthcare provider, your involvement in civic health is more critical than ever. In this live stream, our panel of distinguished leaders will discuss how to effectively integrate civic engagement into your practice and how advocacy at the local and national levels can make a meaningful impact. Whether you’re new to electoral advocacy or looking to deepen your involvement, this session will provide you with actionable insights.
Key Takeaways
- Integrating Civic Health into Patient Care: Learn how civic engagement and healthcare intersect, and how you can promote civic health as part of your medical practice.
- Incorporating Electoral Advocacy into Your Career: Understand how to align your career as a healthcare provider with electoral advocacy and why it’s crucial for advancing health equity.
- Getting Involved in Electoral Advocacy: Discover concrete steps to participate in advocacy efforts, especially in an election year, and how to amplify the voices of patients and healthcare workers.
Featured Speakers
Aliya Bhatia
Executive Director, Vot-ER
Aliya leads Vot-ER, an organization dedicated to integrating civic engagement into healthcare, empowering both patients and providers to advocate for civic health.
Dr. Stella Safo, MD, MPH
Co-Founder, Civic Health Alliance; Just Equity for Health; Coalition to Advance Anti-Racism in Medicine
Dr. Safo is a healthcare equity advocate who has founded organizations aimed at promoting health justice and civic participation in healthcare settings.
Anita Peñuelas, MD, MPH
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Dr. Peñuelas brings a passion for addressing social determinants of health and has vast experience advocating for health policies that improve community well-being.
Why This Matters
In an election year, healthcare providers hold a powerful platform to advocate for policies that impact the health of their patients and communities. This session is your chance to hear from experts leading the charge in civic health and advocacy and to explore ways in which you can be part of this important movement.
How to Attend
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
🕗 Time: 8:00 – 9:00 PM (ET) / 5:00 – 6:00 PM (PT)
📍 Location: Live Stream Event
🔗 Registration: Click here to register
About the Speaker Series
This event is part of a three-part speaker series designed for healthcare providers-in-training who want to become leaders in advocacy. Upcoming sessions will continue to build on the themes of civic engagement, policy advocacy, and healthcare leadership. Stay tuned for more information on the next sessions.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from leaders in healthcare advocacy and to begin integrating electoral advocacy into your professional journey!
Speaker: Aliya Bhatia, Executive Director at Vot-ER
Aliya Bhatia serves as the Executive Director of Vot-ER, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to integrate civic engagement into healthcare.
Founded by Dr. Alister Martin, Vot-ER works across all 50 states, in rural and urban communities, and in settings ranging from mobile clinics to major academic hospitals. Since 2020, Vot-ER has helped tens of thousands of healthcare professionals and patients get ready to vote and has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Washington Post, NBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
More than anything, Aliya relishes working at the crossroads between different fields and disciplines. She loves projects and conversations that cut across topics such as democracy, diversity, leadership, education, housing, health, technology, policy, and international politics. Outside of work, Aliya enjoys spending time with her friends, mentors, and former students. She dabbles in the arts and can occasionally be found practicing improv or painting.
Speaker: Dr. Stella Safo, MD, MPH, Co-Founder of Civic Health Alliance, Justice Equity for Health, and Coalition to Advance Anti-Racism in Medicine
Dr. Safo is Ghanaian-American board-certified HIV primary care physician, public health advocate, and the founder of Just Equity for Health, a health care improvement company that uses advocacy, education and care model design to ensure equitable care delivery across all sectors of medicine. Dr. Safo has experience in clinical transformation and health care redesign in academic and corporate healthcare settings, as Senior Medical Director and Chief Clinical Transformation officer, respectively. In addition to her commitment to population health and care model design, Dr. Safo is dedicated to equity within health care. She is a founding member of several organizations dedicated to gender and racial equity and to civic engagement in medicine.
Dr. Safo completed her undergraduate, medical and public health degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.
She resides in Brooklyn, NY and enjoys traveling and reading.
Speaker: Anita Peñuelas, MD, MPH, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Anita Peñuelas is a Family Medicine Physician currently working as a Locums Physician for The Polyclinic. She grew up in Seattle on unceded Duwamish land so has deep ties to the Pacific Northwest. After a formative 2 years living and working on the Diné (Navaho) Reservation she returned to the University of Washington to obtain a Masters in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health. She worked for several years in public health programs before completing Medical School and Family Medicine Residency at the University of Washington.
Most of her medical career has involved direct patient care but she has always remained interested and engaged in broader public health Issues. More recently as the Climate Crisis has become the biggest Public Health issue of our time, she joined the WPSR Climate and Health Task Force in order to help influence the deep policy changes which are needed.
She is honored to join the WPSR Board in order to further the goals of this vital organization.