EDI encourages each of us to pause and consider our role to learn more about what we can do to educate ourselves and become part of the solution to name...
What do you really, really want? That’s the question Tony Tsai, MBA, and Tom Hurtado, EdD, ask medical students to consider when helping them connect to their greatest purpose in...
May is National Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In a brief conversation, three folx discuss why this observance is important to them and the celebratory solidarity they hope will ripple...
This month, we are moving the spotlight over to feature a core member of our University Health Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (UHEDI) team. Guillermo Cuevas (he/him/el) has been with UHEDI...
At University of Utah Health, 21% of faculty are tenured. Of the tenured faculty, 3.6% identify as being part of an underrepresented in medicine race/ethnicity group.
Tom Hurtado, EdD, and Tony Tsai, MBA, use the RealMD program as a framework for helping us reassess our personal definitions of success. Being at our very best, they explain...
U Remembers reflects on the historical effects of racial discrimination and invites us to make connections between the past and contemporary social issues. It’s critical that we ensure our students...
2022 marks the third year U of U Health has released directed steps as part of Strategy 2025. Most of our strategy has been executed and refined in the thick...
We are excited to feature Donna Baluchi, MLIS and to celebrate National Library Week (April 3-9). Donna (she/they) is the Eccles Health Sciences Library Interim Associate Director for Equity, Diversity...
An editorial in the Annals of Family Medicine outlines five recommendations to improve health disparities by applying an equity framework to primary care medicine.
The Neurobehavior HOME Program is a partnership between the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and the state of Utah. This unique "medical home" model of care provides personalized treatment for...
Highlight LGBTQIA+ movements and leaders who work in solidarity with multiple marginalized communities and build an LGBTQIA+ movement that works for the liberation of all people.
U of U Health anesthesiologist Emily Hagn, MD, started a collaborative art project to help the community heal from the losses of the COVID-19 pandemic. Project Art Heals Utah invites...
The last two entering classes at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah are the most diverse in the school's history. A scholarship program for...
Validate and acknowledge the struggles we have been experiencing over the past two years and explore the ways we are shifting, striving, and thriving to become stronger as we emerge...
Dr. Lucero (she/her/ella) joins the University of Utah as the inaugural College of Health Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion as well as Associate Professor in Health and Kinesiology.
Relationships are among the most crucial aspects of personal well-being. Creating meaningful connections and belonging to a community helps counteract feelings of isolation. But in the daily grind of the...
If your department or team will be holding a Collective Day of Action event of any kind, we ask that you submit it to the Presidential Commission on Equity &...
