Health professionals do not reflect the broader racial/ethnic diversity of the United States.
Historical barriers to accessing health professions education have played a major role in …

Importance Black physicians are substantially underrepresented in the US health care
workforce, with detrimental effects on the health and health care experiences of Black …

In May 2020, George Floyd's murder by police officers motivated international outrage and
the most recent nationwide reflection of the United States' racial caste system. By the time …

In this article, we examine the 60-year history of diversity efforts within the Section of Plastic
Surgery at the University of Michigan (UofM) in the context of national trends. We describe …

Organizations and their practices contribute to the marginalization of transgender and
gender diverse (TGD) populations by rewarding gender normativity and punishing gender …

Background Stereotype about Black people contribute to nurses and healthcare providers
gaslighting and dismissing of their health concerns. Despite the popularity of the term …

Today we openly scrutinize medical education, policies, and practices in order to discover
and purge racial biases, but this openness could not differ more from the insidious means by …

Health care is the new battlefront for anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) attacks. It
reflects a broadening of the wave of state-level anti-DEI in higher education legislation that …

It was at the annual Medical Committee for Human Rights convention in 1966 that Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. voiced the following quote:“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in …