diversity and advocacy committees

What We Do: PEDS CACHE

Pediatric Community on the Advancement of Anti-bias, Community-Inclusion, Health-Equity and Education

Supporting UCLA's Overarching Goals for Diversity and Community through:

Creating a forum for celebrating and valuing diversity
- Faculty and resident panels that create a forum for mentorship, sharing of experiences, and advising
- Book clubs quarterly involving faculty, fellows, and residents
Establishing a role in the resident recruitment process, and identifying outreach and education projects
- Diversity dinners/mixers
- Creating opportunities within the interview process for open discussions with URM students and specific pairings with residents that identify as URMs
- Community service events and school based partnerships
Serve as a source of support for current and prospective residents
Partner with the Pediatric Faculty Committee on Diversity to identify educational and patient goals around issues of cultural sensitivity

2026-2027

Chief Liaison:
Anthony Jusuf and Andrew Fahmy (AFahmy@mednet.ucla.edu, AJusuf@mednet.ucla.edu)

2025-2026

Chief Liaison:

Resident Lead Representative:
Brittny Dike, MD (BDike@mednet.ucla.edu)

What We Do:

We are a council of pediatric residents passionate about advocacy and children's health issues:

To help residents develop the habits, confidence and skills needed to advocate for children and families on both a micro and macroscale
To provide a community for residents where they feel supported and inspired in order to carry out advocacy action items
- Specifically, to host advocacy activity per month, either a “Take Action Tuesday” noon conference or an outside event on a timely advocacy topic
To connect residents with faculty mentors who exemplify how to incorporate advocacy into a career in pediatrics
Opportunities with AAP-CA2:

2025-2026

Chief Liaison: