UC Davis Health Archives – Strategic Health Care Marketing

Moving Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Initiatives From Philosophy to Reality

May 20, 2021

Karen Jones, director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Johns Hopkins Medicine

The status for diversity, inclusion, and health equity initiatives across America? It’s complicated. How do you train your staff about biases toward patients and colleagues when they don’t believe they have any? We all grow up with assumptions and stereotypical views of the world and the people in it. For the health care industry, fair Read More

Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Easier Said Than Done?

April 26, 2021

José Rodríguez, MD, associate vice president for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (HEDI), University of Utah School of Medicine

// By Marcia Simon, APR // Just the notion that groups of people are overlooked or marginalized means there’s much work to be done to level the playing field. The past year of glaring health disparities revealed that health care as an industry needs to step up and root out biases, even when unconscious, that Read More