Synopsis:

Unconscious bias can play a role in both clinical care and patient experiences.  Determining the presence and magnitude of inequity can be methodologically challenging in children’s research.  This presentation will frame opportunities to investigate and address inequities through the lens of improvement science using patient safety as a model.

Speaker:

Professor Gary L. Freed is the Percy and Mary Murphy professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. He serves as Associate Chair for Government Relations in the Department of Pediatrics and the Directory of Research for the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion in the Medical School.

Prof Freed has more than 30 years of experience in children’s health services research. He founded the first pediatric health services research center in the US.  He has been the principal investigator of numerous grants on child health policy and health economics, immunizations, health care quality measurement, health inequities, physician behavior and the medical workforce.

He is a past president of the Society for Pediatric Research, the largest research society in child health. He is past chair of the Department of Health and Human Services National Vaccine Advisory Committee and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Prof Freed spent 3 years in Australia as a visiting scholar at the RCH, where he started the health services research program in 2014, and as a Professor in the School of Population and Global Health University of Melbourne.  Most recently he has founded the first Program on Child Health Equity in the US.