Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH, FAAP

Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatrician and anti-oppression and pro-liberation child advocate. She serves on several boards for the American Academy of Pediatrics and is president of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

As a descendant of the enslaved, freedom fighters, and generations of social justice warriors, she has actively worked to dismantle racism and systems of oppression since she was a teenager. She also has participated in global pediatric health care initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with honors with a doctor of medicine degree from Meharry Medical College School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University in Detroit. From there, she went to Boston Children’s Hospital and completed two fellowships — the Dyson Advocacy Fellowship and the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship. She also earned a master of public health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health during her fellowship.