Adiaha I.a. Spinks-franklin MD, MPH, FAAP

Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH is a board-certified Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics for Baylor College of Medicine. As a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), she serves as the Education Committee Chair on the Executive Committee of the Section of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. As a member of the Society of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, she served on the Board of Directors and as Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee. She is the Founder of the pediatric anti-racism social justice organization Race and Children Educational Collaborative of Anti-Racist Developmental-Behavioral Professionals (RACECARD).

Dr. Spinks-Franklin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. She graduated with honors from Meharry Medical College School of Medicine in Nashville, TN in 1999. She completed Pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University in Detroit, MI in 2002. She completed the Dyson Advocacy Fellowship in 2003, and the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics fellowship in 2005 at Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston MA. She earned a Master’s in Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005. She participates in global pediatric healthcare projects in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America.