Learn how to advocate for health equity from a national leader in the field.
The UW Center for IPE is partnering with University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education to bring students from across institutions and professions together to learn skills for improving health systems and equity.
The program will be led and facilitated by an IPE Scholar in Residence, Dr. Robert Rock, Director of Health Justice Training Initiatives at the New York-based Social Mission Alliance.
Participants in the program will learn more about:
- the “Why?” of advocacy as a health professional student
- how to apply critical theory to understand the professionalization process for healthcare workers
- how to apply reflective practices in organizing and advocacy work
- interprofessional coalition building
- recognizing the narratives that exist, and cultivating a new narrative
- the skills of power mapping / needs assessment
Graduate health sciences students and BSN/ABSN students can register to participate in a three-part interactive and Zoom-based learning opportunity with Dr. Rock and colleagues from across the two institutions. Participation in all three sessions is highly encouraged, as relationship building is an important element of this program.
Sessions will take place on three Tuesday evenings via Zoom:
- Tuesday October 22, 2024, 5pm-6:30pm: Framing of Equity Focused Advocacy as an Interprofessional Endeavor
- Tuesday November 19, 2024, 5pm-6:30pm : Bringing One’s Whole Self to the Profession: Alignment of Personal and Professional Action
- Tuesday January 14, 2025, 5pm-6:30pm : Advocacy / Organizing Skills for Health Professional Students
Register for Advocacy Skills Training
Registration will remain open until the program is filled. Questions? Contact Noa T. Brazg at tbrazg@uw.edu
Robert Rock, MD
Dr. Robert Rock is a child of the humanities, passionate about building community, fighting for health justice, and reforming health professional training. He received his BA in Art History from New York University and went on to obtain his MD from the Yale School of Medicine. As a medical student, he co-developed US Health Justice (USHJ), an elective course for medical, nursing, and physician associate students dedicated to social medicine, domestic health equity, and health advocacy. Dr. Rock went on to work with graduate students from across the university to develop the multidisciplinary USHJ Collaborative, which works to educate and strengthen the growing health justice community, campus-wide.
As a first-year Family Medicine resident at Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Rock worked with a group of Black and Latinx residents and junior faculty of color in revamping the program’s first-year social medicine immersion month curriculum. Robert Rock, MD is a board certified family physician and currently a second year fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University.