Julie M. Linton, MD, FAAP is a primary care pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Prisma Health Children’s Hospital Upstate. Dr. Linton’s professional work focuses on optimal clinical care, community engagement, and advocacy for policy-level action to advance health equity, with a focus on children in immigrant families. Dr. Linton is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Leaders Program, the Past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health, a member of the AAP Committee on Federal Government Affairs, and a consultant for the Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law. She has testified before Congress and appeared in national media including NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today.
After graduating with a B.S. in psychology from Duke University, Dr. Linton spent 9 months in Panama as part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, in partnership with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Dr. Linton earned her medical doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, followed by pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Linton is currently pursuing her master’s degree in global health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Learning Objectives:
- Define advocacy and community health as core to the identity of all pediatricians and to our profession
- Drawing from examples in advancing health equity for immigrant families, identify strategies to engage in advocacy that align with one’s expertise, passion, and capacity
- Describe how advocacy, policy, and politics may intersect and approaches to navigate that complexity
Speaker:
- Julie M. Linton, MD, FAAP
This seminar focuses on general pediatrics and was delivered as a Pediatric Grand Rounds Lecture at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, on March 4, 2026.
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