Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Goals for Our Community

Our goal is to create a culture and climate of equity and inclusion, where diversity is nurtured, valued, and celebrated.

Our Culture

Our People

Our Learners

SOM Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leadership

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Our Differences Make Us Stronger

To deliver the highest quality of care, we need a team with a wide variety of ethnic, cultural, and experiential backgrounds. That's why we're actively recruiting learners, faculty members and staff from underrepresented in medicine groups, to help us improve health outcomes for all members of the diverse community we serve.

We have a responsibility to every patient who walks through our doors, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, language spoken, or other life experience that might differ from our own. An organizational culture rich in diverse experiences helps us provide compassionate, cross-cultural care as we lead the effort to eliminate health inequities across the globe.

Caring for a Diverse Population

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What We're Doing

Affinity Month Celebrations

It is our goal to build a culture that recognizes the contributions of all individuals. Faculty Academic Advancement, Leadership and Inclusion is collecting faculty peer or self-nominations for each month.

Read stories from Black History Month

Anti-Racism Resources

The School of Medicine has developed a toolkit of anti-racism resources to help address the need for our collective education, engagement, and growth. While diversity, equity, and inclusion have been championed in several areas, there is more work to be done.

Racism & Social Justice Webinar Series

In our commitment against racism, hate, and injustice we have created a series of webinars to support intercultural fluencies and frank conversations through humble inquiry. The series explores the significance of Juneteenth, the African-American experience, bias in clinical decision making, COVID-19 in the African-American community and much more.

Unconscious Bias Education Program

The School of Medicine has over 20 certified unconscious bias facilitators who engage with session participants to explain the impact unconscious/implicit bias has on workplace decision-making, the concept of microaggressions, and how to mitigate bias in research, education, and practice.

Request a session facilitator

Speakers Bureau

As the School of Medicine advances towards equity, inclusion, and community engagement, we have created a speakers bureau specifically for our faculty who self-identify as Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) and/or women.

Join the speakers bureau

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Explore SOM African American History

Emory School of Medicine honors, acknowledges, recognizes, and celebrates African American physicians for their leadership, scholarship, and service.

Departmental Programming

Many departments in the School of Medicine have dedicated diversity, equity and inclusion programs to support learners, faculty and staff. Explore your department’s resources.

Anesthesiology

Emergency Medicine

Medicine

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Pediatrics

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Radiology & Imaging Sciences

Events, Programs, and Affinity Groups

Hamilton E. Holmes Memorial Lecture Faculty, Staff & Learners

Annual lecture series named for the first African-American to enter and graduate from Emory University School of Medicine

Bold Leaders Series Faculty, Staff & Learners

Our journey to eminence requires bold leadership. Join us for a new speaker series that seeks to engage the School of Medicine community with forward-visioning leaders in a school-wide conversation and idea exchange on topics of leadership, wellness, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Emory Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Awards Faculty, Staff & Learners

Annual recognition and celebration of people and organizations in greater Atlanta whose work exemplifies the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

FAALI Lecture Series Faculty

Lecture series presented throughout the year by senior faculty within the School of Medicine, covers practical topics including diversity and inclusion, aimed at assisting faculty in their career development.

Emory Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science Faculty & Trainees

Group supporting women faculty and trainees through education, advocacy, mentoring, and networking

Emory Medical Alliance (EMA) Faculty & Current Students

Group that provides education and exposure to topics of LGBT health, mentorship with LGBT physicians, and service opportunities to support the local LGBT community

Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Current Students

Chapter committed to supporting medical school students of color, addressing the needs of underserved communities, and increasing the number of culturally competent and socially conscious physicians

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Visiting Clerkship Current Students

Provides mentoring, networking, and stipend support for URiM, fourth-year students from U.S. Medical Schools pursuing careers in Internal Medicine and its subspecialties.

Alliance of Health Professionals (AHP) Current Students

AHP is a student-led group that aims to establish and sustain an environment of inclusion and acceptance for all graduate and undergraduate health professional students, especially underrepresented students in medicine, by building support and unity.

HealthPREP at Emory Prospective Students

Eight-week residential program for underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students interested in applying to medical school.

Emory Revisited Prospective Students

Weekend event during which underrepresented minority students accepted to the School of Medicine return to campus to meet with faculty and students and learn more about us.

Emory Premedical Readiness Engagement Program (EmPREP) Prospective Students

EmPREP is a series of learning resources, tips, and tools that provide insights to undergraduate students (and the faculty/staff members who support and advise these students), on the many stages of the medical school admissions process.

EMPACT Mentoring Program Prospective Students

The purpose of the EMPACT is to provide students who self-identify as an underrepresented in medicine (URM) and/or those who may come from disadvantaged backgrounds, with experiences that foster timely and successful matriculation through medical school.

Summer Science Academy Prospective Students

Program designed to heighten ninth and tenth grade students' interest in science, introduce careers in healthcare, and reinforce fundamental principles of science

Emory Pipeline Collaborative (EPiC) Prospective Students

Three-year federally funded mentorship program to prepare high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds for entry into health professions