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Birth Equity Scholar Training (BEST) Program Application 2024

Thank you for your interest in the Birth Equity Clinical Scholar Training Program.

Please complete the application.

Mission:
To create solutions that improve maternal and infant health disparities in Kansas through training, research, healthcare, and a community centered approach.

Vision:
Every birthing person receives quality and intentional prenatal, neonatal, and postpartum care in the state of Kansas.

Training:

The AAFP recommends educating physicians about inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality and supports strategies that integrate birth equity into the delivery of family-centered maternity care.

Birth Equity Clinical Scholar Training Program (BEST Program):

The Birth Equity Clinical Research Scholars Program is a two-year leadership development program designed to prepare medical residents for research and practice careers that advance birth equity in disenfranchised communities. Scholars will benefit from birth equity training and research opportunities that will allow them to increase their understanding of respectful research and maternal and child health scholarship, network with local maternal health stakeholders, particularly Black women led community based organizations, and strengthen their communication skills and local and national maternal and child health policy insight.

Birth Equity Clinical Research Scholars are expected to:

Complete the online birth equity implicit bias training (5 module online course)
Attend monthly sessions and didactics
Work with a mentor team, clinical, research, and community member to conduct your project
Participate in virtual writing accountability groups to support progress in manuscripts
Participate in the monthly virtual maternal and child health journal club
Publish one research article and blog
Gain a deeper understanding of one maternal and child health community-based organization through meeting attendance and/or research
Support KBEN research and evaluation activities
Disseminate research results at the annual Resident Research Day
Learn about policy making in Kansas, advocate for a policy in Kansas and write a one-page policy brief to be disseminated to the Kansas legislature: https://blackmaternalhealthcaucus-underwood.house.gov/Momnibus

* Reasonable accomodations will be made for all Birth Equity Scholars to complete all activities.

Click on each link to learn more about our community organizations

Cradle KC (i.e. Every Baby to One)
Community Health Council of Wyandotte County
Kansas Action for Children
Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition
New Birth Company
Uzazi Village
Kansas Birth Justice Society
Wyandotte County Health Department
Swope Health
Kansas Birth Equity Network

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