Gender Equity and Diversity in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: We Must Do Better

Affiliations

¹ Maternal and Child Health Postgraduate Program, Institute of Pediatrics, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
² Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
³ Pediatric Critical Care Faculty, Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, United States.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, United States.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
⁶ Division of Paediatric Critical Care Khoo Teck Puat, National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Charlotte Bloomberg Children's Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Editorial

Vanessa Soares Lanziotti et al. J Pediatr Intensive Care. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 10;13(3):211-213.

doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1735871. eCollection 2024 Sep.

¹ Maternal and Child Health Postgraduate Program, Institute of Pediatrics, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
² Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
³ Pediatric Critical Care Faculty, Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, United States.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, United States.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
⁶ Division of Paediatric Critical Care Khoo Teck Puat, National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Charlotte Bloomberg Children's Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest None declared.

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