A call to Advocacy and Action for Courageous Clinicians with Pedja Stojicic MD MPH.

     In S5 E14 I am delighted to welcome Pedja Stojicic, MD, MPH to the podcast.
Dr  Stojicic is an instructor for the DrPH Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health teaching two courses - Enabling Teams and Enabling Large System Change. Pedja is passionate about enabling health leaders to use community organizing practices to advocate for equitable health and well-being. He currently serves as an executive lead for People, Power, Health https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/ .
       In the past, he has worked with the CMS, Center for Public Health Leadership, Primary Care Progress, Way to Wellville, Healthcare Anchor Network, Center for Health Progress, and many others. Previously, Dr. Stojicic has served as president and executive director of Youth of JAZAS, a Serbian NGO fighting HIV/AIDS, and as a consultant for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia implementing health care financing reform. Dr. Stojicic completed a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School studying Leadership and Organizing with Prof. Marshall Ganz and later worked as a member of Ganz’s HKS Teaching Team. As a life-long activist, he currently serves on the advisory board of Leading Change Network, one of the largest global networks of social movement leaders.
     In this incredible conversation Pedja tells us his own story of self before elaborating on the concept of narrative leadership and the practice and pedagogy  of community organising to enable positive social, environmental and political change. We discuss the story arc of Self, Us and Now ( articulated by Professor Marshall Ganz in his book People. Power, Change)  and why finding voice as clinicians and articulating our own story is a key first step to bringing others with us, building collective agency and taking action.
     I learn more about work at People, Power, Health and HEART, an advocacy training program for courageous clinicians.
     In challenging and uncertain times it is hard not to be inspired and energised by Dr Stojicic who aptly describes himself as  intellectual pessimist but action optimist. This conversation is an empowering call to individual and collective action.

"Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has to be a key part of it"
Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Links / References / Further Reading:
Dr Pedja Stojicic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedjastojicic/
People, Power, Health
https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/
HEART program - advocacy training for courageous clinicians
https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/heart

People, Power, Change Professor Marshall Ganz
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/people-power-change-organizing-democratic-renewal


 

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