Writing an Op Ed

Advocacy Application Option #2: Write an Op Ed

If you select this option, please have Dr. Naughton review your piece. Submission to a publication is not required, but encouraged!

REQUIRED: Watch this excellent orientation to writing Op Eds by our own Med-Peds PGY-4 Xanthia Tucker! You can watch it directly from this page.

The Op Ed Project aims to provide tools so that a diverse group of people can make their voices heard. Click on the picture to the left for a link to their "Op Ed Basics" page.

Browse examples of effective Op Eds!

To the left is a recent example by Dr. Jack Turban, a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellow at Stanford. Click on the picture of his tweet to read the full article in Scientific American.