Amplifying Our Voices: Fostering Advocacy in Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Advocacy has long been at the core of the infectious diseases (ID) field, with clinicians and researchers advocating to ensure patients can access the care they need on an individual and global scale. The Infectious Diseases Society of America Training Program Directors' (PD) Committee met in 2024 and discussed ways that advocacy is and should be incorporated into fellowship training, as well as highlighted the role PDs play in advocating for their trainees. Policies with a negative impact on ID clinical care, public health, and research underscore the importance of mobilizing the field of ID to advocate for the patients and communities we serve, as well as for ourselves. This paper presents ideas generated at this meeting and is meant to serve as a reference for ID PDs, as well as the wider ID community, as a call to action for teaching and participating in advocacy work.
Authors
- F Román
- Vera Luther (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9331-0918)
- Gayle Balba
- Paul S. Pottinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9143-8857)
- Raymund Rabe Razonable (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5248-0227)
- Sok-ho Trinh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-1406)
- Georgina Osorio
- Subhashis Mitra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3372-0739)
- Benjamin A. Miko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6115-3014)
- Rachael Pellegrino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7111-3040)
- Pinki J. Bhatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8177-9903)
- Michael Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7858-4929)
- Raul Macias Gil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3875-5209)
- Tanaya Bhowmick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5734-8911)
- Brian Chow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1599-9956)
- Christopher J. Graber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4041-2811)
- Saira Butt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-8379)
- Molly L Paras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6658-8634)
- Michael Angarone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3728-7864)
- Sigridh Muñoz-Gómez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8836-2676)
- Rania S Abdel Aziz
- Ole Vielemeyer
- Rosy Priya Kodiyanplakkal
- Luis Antonio Ribot García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5111-0694)
- Rachel Bartash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2743-3124)
- Dana M Blyth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3917-7394)
- Jessica S Tischendorf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-291X)
- Brian G. Blackburn
- Bismarck Bisono (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4329-4515)
- Wendy Stead (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3340-3052)
- Alfredo J Mena Lora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8337-757X)
- F Arnold
- Henry Donaghy
- Sara Schultz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0563-0752)
- Marvin J. Bittner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2464-8819)
- Rachel Shnekendorf
- Natalie Mariam Salas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8795-3431)
- Christopher J. Sellers
- Darcy Wooten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2184-0347)
- Nitin Bhanot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9505-0910)
- Paulette Pinargote
- Jerrin Jose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6550-8688)
- Amanda Jezek
- Mariam Aziz
- Ryan K Dare (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9540-2683)
- Mukesh Patel
- Allan Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3484-1088)
- A. Carey
- Carlie Cerne
- Leonor Echevarria
- J Alex Viehman
Institutions
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Long Island University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Georgetown University (US)
- Los Angeles Harbor College (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Infectious Diseases Society of America (US)
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Temple University Hospital (US)
- Mayo Clinic in Florida (US)
- Wake Forest University (US)
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaf677
- Primary Topic
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00