Hannah L Kakara Anderson, PhD, MBA
Instructor A of Pediatrics
Instructor A of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
andersonhl@chop.edu
andersonhl@chop.edu
Education:
BS (Disability Studies and Education Administration)
Vanderbilt University, 2017.
MBA (Business Administration)
Clemson University, 2020.
PhD (Health Professions Education)
Maastricht University, 2025.
Permanent linkBS (Disability Studies and Education Administration)
Vanderbilt University, 2017.
MBA (Business Administration)
Clemson University, 2020.
PhD (Health Professions Education)
Maastricht University, 2025.
Description of Other Expertise
Medical Education; Educational EquityDescription of Research Expertise
Qualitative research, Educational design researchSelected Publications
Kakara Anderson HL, Balmer DF, Weiss A, Govaerts M, Busari JO: Power Moves: an ethnographic investigation of how space, place, and pace influence equity in pediatric workplace-based assessment. Acad Med 100(11): e43-e51, November 2025.Kakara Anderson HL, Abdulla L, Cabral P, Govaerts M, Balmer DF, Busari JO: Abrasion: a phenomenological study of inequity in workplace-based assessment in pediatrics. Soc Sci Med 375: 118092, June 2025.
Kakara Anderson HL, Govaerts M, Abdulla L, Balmer DF, Busari JO, West DC: Clarifying and Expanding Equity in Assessment by Considering Three Orientations: Fairness, Inclusion, and Justice. Med Educ 59(5): 494-502, May 2025.
Anderson HLK, West DC, Schwartz AJ, Weiss AK, Marcus C, Hanson E, Turner DA, Schumacher DJ: Inequity in Assessment Among Pediatric Residents. JAMA Netw Open 1(8): e255594, April 2025.
Anderson HK, Cabral P, Gerstenzang E, Liverpool C, Gonzalez M, Weiss A, Cullen D, Balmer D, Govaerts M, West DC, Busari J: Co-Designing a Justice-Oriented Assessment System in a Pediatric Residency Program: Report from the Designing for Equity in Medical Education Project. Perspect Med Educ 14(1): 141-148, April 2025.
Sun JK, Cabral P, Poeppelman R, Schuerer J, Borman-Shoap E, Hobday P, Henry D, Fuchs E, Kakara Anderson HL, West DC, Balmer DF: Concordance and divergence in perceptions of equitable assessment among pediatric residents and faculty: a multi-center qualitative secondary analysis using the anti-deficit model of equitable assessment. Education Day, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Poster 2025.
Anderson HLK, Xu X, Edwell A, Lockwood L, Cabral P, Weiss A, Poeppelman RS, Kalata K, Shanker AI, Rosenfeld J, Borman-Shoap E, Pearce M, Karol C, Scheurer J, Hobday PM, O'Connor M, West DC, Balmer DF: How Might we Build an Equitable Future? Design Justice, a Counternarrative to Dominant Approaches in Medical Education. Teach Learn Med 16(1): 1-9, September 2024.
Anderson HL, Lewis N, Rezet B: A Qualitative Study of Resident Advocacy Work. Pediatrics 153(3): e2023061590, March 2024.
Anderson HL, Abdulla L, Balmer DF, Govaerts M, Busari JO: Inequity is Woven into the Fabric: A Discourse Analysis of Assessment in Pediatric Residency Training Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 29(1): 199-216, March 2024.
Zaidi Z, Ölveczky D, Perez NA, Martin PC, Fernandez A, Duncan P, Anderson HL: Why Competency Frameworks Are Insufficiently Nuanced for Health Equity Teaching and Assessment. AMA J Ethics 26(1): E12-20, January 2024.