We applaud @the_BMC and their efforts through Project REACH to outreach to the 14,000 families within the pediatric primary care network and connect them with community resources around food delivery. Together we can work towards #FoodEquity for every neighborhood.

Please call your local legislator and ask them to support House Bill H4802, which allows appropriations for COVID-19 spending in support of the Project Bread FoodSource Hotline, enhancing the SNAP outreach program, and providing emergency operational costs for School Meal Sites.

#COVID19 has thrown accelerant on pre-existing health and healthcare inequities and structural racism. Thank you to MMWR for helping Boston Medical Center share our experience caring for patients who bear the highest burden of #COVID19 exposure and illness. Thea James @KateWalshCEO

Excited to share our new study in JAMA Network Open-more evidence that value-based incentive programs function as a disproportionate penalty system for safety-net hospitals without meaningful benefits for patients: ja.ma/2ZRnrRa This is #StructuralRacism in action. 🧵 1/

Hot off the press - our research letter arguing that the way CDC reports COVID-19 disparities is misleading. #tweetorial #epitwitter #socialepitwitter jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Did your hospitals #AntiRacism pledge include efforts to help #SickleCellWarriors? If not, you've got more work to do! 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏼 Pat McGann, MD & I outlined some steps to get you started nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… #PHOdocs #hematopoieticjustice #SickleCellAwarenessMonth #MedTwitter

1/2 What is structural racism, how does it impact and drive health disparities in the United States, and what can we do to address it and work towards #healthequity? Thanks to creators Ariana Mora & Kaitlin Sandor, editors @daughertyler & @cg_coleman, & reviewer Marshall Fleurant

Wow. Feeling so strongly as a pediatrician listening to the difference in responses to the question on #climatechange that voting for Joe Biden is a vote for child health and a vote for our futures. I'm a @DoctorsForBiden, and I #votehealth and #votekids.

Explore the data presented in today's State of Hunger webinar in the new research brief by Boston Indicators Children's HealthWatch & Project Bread: bostonindicators.org/reports/report…

Promoting health means addressing the roots of sickness; in the US, this means addressing the historic legacy of slavery. New in NEJM, wrote with Dr. Mary T. Bassett on how reparations can help end health divides and build a healthier nation. bit.ly/2I4Vb8e Boston University School of Public Health @DrIbram

Please take a moment to read this powerful perspective piece on the challenges deaf and hard-of-hearing people face with the COVID-19 pandemic, written by my colleague Dr. Bonnie Crume, a @TheBCRP resident at Boston Children's & Boston Medical Center. bit.ly/36XRCeo

Please check out this powerful and personal piece by @TheBCRP resident @_DrJ on intersectionality in healthcare. We are so incredibly lucky to learn from you and your amazing advocacy. Boston Medical Center Boston Children's

Check out our thoughts on why and how pediatricians should encourage patient civic engagement in this election and beyond! #Vote AAP Peds Trainees American Academy of Pediatrics

New study in JAMA Pediatrics led by ultra-talented mentee, @DrJamieLim (also @JoelEarlywine & @marshall__lab). In youth aged 13-25, it's now more common than not for #opioid overdoses to ALSO involve cocaine, meth. We can't focus only on opioids. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

To achieve equity in our COVID-19 response and in our vaccine rollout, we must be guided by three core principles: 1) Value all individuals and populations equally 2) Recognize and rectify historical injustices 3) Provide resources according to need newsweek.com/2020/04/24/cor…

Check out this fantastic commentary by my stellar co-residents @ckelly60637 and @NikitaKalluri on how Childcare is an overlooked social determinant of health, and tangible recs for how we can be better advocates!

Why I love my job ⁦Boston Medical Center⁩ ! Teams of people working to safely and equitably distribute vaccines to their front line colleagues getting cheered on by their friends celebrating the arrival of the vaccines! A great day, a great place. ❤️

Great work by Rohini Jain, MD @ckelly60637 Sagar Mehta, MD Destiny Tolliver, MD, MHS Amanda Stewart, MD MPH Joanna Perdomo, MD describing A Trainee-led Social Media Advocacy Campaign to Address COVID-19 Inequities. @TheBCRP Boston Medical Center Boston Children's AAP Journals pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/…

Today while caring for a pediatric patient with fever, I learned the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for UTI in infants and young children with fever support differential treatment of UTI for Black and White children based on race. 1/ pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/3/…

We celebrate the end of a damaging, harmful policy that caused immigrant families to forgo needed services. Now that the Justice Department chose to stop defending the Trump Administration’s public charge rule, it is no longer in effect. Our statement: services.aap.org/en/news-room/n…