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2026-27 Call for Volunteers: Committee Members
SAHM is conducting a Call for Volunteers for Committee Members to help us complete the rosters for several committees for 2026-27. Talented volunteers are the lifeblood of every membership organization. The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) invites you to share your passion by serving on one of SAHM’s many committees.
All committee members must be members in good standing in the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2026, please do so now. The term of service for committee members is three years with the option for re-appointment to an additional three-year term. (Article X, SAHM By-Laws).
Committee appointments are made by the President in consultation with the President-Elect and Committee Chairs. Final decisions will consider the applicant’s preference while also considering relevant bylaws requirements, space available, the needs of the committee and ensuring each committee roster includes a diverse representation of the SAHM membership. Keeping with the multidisciplinary and global perspective of SAHM, we encourage applications from members worldwide and from all disciplines and experience levels.
Terms
Committee members serve three-year terms and can serve up to two consecutive terms as a committee member (total six years). Committee Members appointed during this call will have their first term expire after the SAHM 2029 Annual Meeting.
Application Deadline: Thursday, April 23
To express interest and apply for a committee roster position, please complete the following steps:
- Review the list of SAHM committees with availability below.
- Identify three or more committees of greatest interest to you.
- Rank the committees preferential in order.
- Complete the committee volunteer application.
- Appointment decisions will be announced by mid-May 2026.
Committees with Vacancies Available
We are calling for volunteers to fill vacancies for the following SAHM Committees. Committees not listed do not currently have any vacancies to fill.
Standing Committees
Co-Chairs: Meredith McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP
Senior Policy Fellow: Abigail English, JD
Charge of the Advocacy Committee
- Develop and execute actions to achieve advocacy related objectives and goals of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Identify annual priority issues for SAHM advocacy efforts in partnership with the SAHM Executive Committee, Board of Directors, committees, and other key SAHM stakeholders.
- Proactively and responsively advocate for innovative and effective policy, legislation, and practices, and increase advocacy activities and engagement with policymakers at local, regional, national, and global levels.
- Collaborate in advocacy work with state, regional, national, and global organizations.
- Develop and/or review requests from other organizations requesting SAHM to sign onto various policy or advocacy efforts, such as letters to members of Congress and the White House. Join in congressional testimony consistent with SAHM priorities and stated policies.
- Promote multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary advocacy efforts that include youth engagement.
Chair: Keisha Adams, MD, MPH
Charge of the Diversity Committee
- Develop and execute actions to achieve diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in all aspects of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Partner with key SAHM stakeholders to achieve diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Determine the recipient of the Renee R. Jenkins, MD Racial Justice and Health Equity Award.
Co-Chairs: TBA
Charge of the Research Committee
- Develop and execute actions to achieve the research related objectives and goals of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Advance the development, translation, and dissemination of research that promotes AYA health equity and social justice.
- Provide research training, collaboration opportunities, and professional development resources that are relevant to SAHM members.
- Advocate for funding for research that generates adolescent- and young-adult specific data on health outcomes, well-being, and measures of health equity and social justice.
Health Committees
Chair: Maya Kumar, MD
Charge of the Eating Disorders Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Chair: Mandakini Sadhir, M.B.B.S, FAAP
Charge of the Mental Health Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Chair: Celia Framson, MPH, RD, CSP
Charge of the Nutrition Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Chair: May Lau MD, MPH, FAAP, FSHAM
Charge of the Reproductive Health Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Chair: Adam Kronish, MD
Charge of the Sexual and Gender Diverse Health Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Chair: Neerav Desai, MD
Charge of the STI/HIV/AIDS Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Co-Chairs: Brittany Badal, MD
Charge of the Substance Use Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Chair: Liana Clark, MD, MS
Charge of the Vaccinations Committee
- Develop and execute actions to include the committee’s content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Co-Chairs: Katelin Blackburn, MD and Felicia Scott-Wellington, MD
Charge of the Violence Prevention Committee
- the committee’s content expertise develop and execute actions to include the committees content expertise to achieve the goals and objectives of SAHM’s aspirational plan.
- Work independently or in partnership with key SAHM stakeholders to integrate the committee’s content expertise into advocacy, clinical, education, professional development, and research strategies.
- Review, revise and /or create appropriate position papers on relevant topics for SAHM.
- Respond to inquiries from the public and the press in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and the Advocacy Committee.
- Advise the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Standing Committees on opportunities to message and disseminate expertise to promote AYA health.
Awards and Services Committee
Chair: TBA
Charge of the Awards Review – Career Committee
- Determine the recipients of the Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Medicine Award and the Student and Fellow-in-Training Career Development Awards.
- Work with other committee members, SAHM leadership and relevant stakeholders to ensure a fair and transparent process.
Chair: TBA
Charge of the Awards Review – Service Committee
- Determine the recipient of the Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care and the recipient of the SAHM/Adele D. Hofmann Visiting Professor in Adolescent Medicine and Health (both the site and the professor).
- Work with other committee members, SAHM leadership and relevant stakeholders to ensure a fair and transparent process.
Questions? Contact SAHM Operations Manager Robin Chan
Last updated 03/31/2026