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- Oregon Health & Science University continues on the path toward becoming an anti-racist institution that both reflects and serves Oregon’s diverse population, the university’s board of directors heard during its quarterly meeting Friday, Jan. 28.
• Anti-racist multicultural institutionalized asset • Redefines and rebuilds all relationships and activities in society, based on anti-racist commitments • Future vision of an institution and wider community that has overcome systemic racism and all other forms of oppression. • Institution's life reflects full participation and
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Appointed Derick Du Vivier senior vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion reporting directly to OHSU President Dr. Danny Jacobs. In this new role, Dr. Du Vivier will have expanded authori...Revise the OHSU Code of Conduct to make displaying hateful imagery an explicit violation, subject to discipline up to and including termination, while considering further modification to our polici...Enhance and build on unconscious bias training and develop a training and mentoring program for OHSU members of color to support upward mobility and career development. Add $1.5 million to the 2020...Terminated the OHSU contract with Oregon Correction Enterprises for laundry services.Develop professional development programs to understand and interrupt anti-racist behaviors including the diversity tax, invalidation and social isolation, and expand bystander training.Support OHSU members who feel hyper-visible and hyper-isolated as single members of underrepresented groups in many of our units. Guidance shared by Dr. Charles Thomas, professor and chair of radia...Continue our commitment to making COVID-19 testing available to members of underrepresented communities through our vans and tents in community locations.Amplify, support and accelerate faculty- and staff-created programs designed to promote health equity and the mitigation of social determinants of health.Established an Equity and Justice Subcommittee of the Undergraduate Medical Education (M.D.) program’s Curriculum Committee at the committee’s July meeting. The subcommittee will develop and contin...Analyze the use of race in clinical algorithms that guide patient care to root out uses where factoring for race is, in practice, leading to less aggressive care for patients of color, as detailed...Expand anti-racism faculty development offerings, including in the area of bystander training and review and enrich our professional development activities with anti-racist education, exploration o...Enhance recruitment and interview strategies, ensuring diverse and unbiased interviewers.As part of restarting research, we are requiring every lab to submit plans for how they will practice anti-racism. We are analyzing the plans to identify best practices.Host a series of Town Halls, starting Aug. 13, focused on anti-racism, to facilitate best practices in labs and to discuss and problem-solve around racism in scientific data and dissemination.Continued support of the OHSU Neuroscience Postbaccalaureate Initiative and the OHSU Fellowship for Diversity in Research postdoc program.Fund Racial Equity and Inclusion Centers pilot program, derived from the proposal from the Alliance for Visible Diversity in Science.• An antiracist institution is an institution that creates policies, practices, and procedures to actively promote racial equity and justice. Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an antiracist. One world, 2019. • Continuum on becoming an Anti-Racist and Multicultural Organization.
To become an anti-racist institution, OHSU must take concrete action to change our culture and the experiences of OHSU members and stakeholders. If our words but not our deeds change, we have failed. Yet learning about and using respectful, identity-affirming language is key to creating a welcoming environment that is antiracist and embraces ...
Jan 28, 2022 · Oregon Health & Science University continues on the path toward becoming an anti-racist institution that both reflects and serves Oregon’s diverse population, the university’s board of directors heard during its quarterly meeting Friday, Jan. 28.
Jun 29, 2023 · OHSU has not admitted students solely on the basis of race. We regret that the Court’s decision does not seem to recognize the continuing effects of systemic racism in our country and, with respect to OHSU’s mission, the resulting health disparities evident in our community.
Oct 19, 2020 · OHSU has committed to doing what is needed to become an anti-racist institution, and has already begun implementing changes across the university. We have much more to do but are resolute in our objectives.
