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Dr. Deidra Crews, professor in the Division of Nephrology, was recently named deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. The center aims to make healthcare institutions more equitable, communities more engaged and health policies and practices more effective to eliminate disparities in health and healthcare in Baltimore, the United States, and the […]
Applications are now open for the Johns Hopkins Virtual Visiting Elective in Equitable Healthcare. This two-week, virtual elective is free for U.S. medical students (MD or DO). Learn more on the Office of the Registrar Visiting Medical Students website.
Dr. Garima Sharma will be the next Associate Vice Chair for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine and Chair of the Task Force on Women’s Academic Careers in Medicine. Dr. Sharma’s interest in diversity, gender and health equity stems from her experiences as a first-generation immigrant and woman navigating Cardiology—a sub-specialty of medicine where women are underrepresented. She […]
For an article on the American Heart Association website, Dr. Mary Branch polled a group of African American physicians and dentists to ask which medicine training programs were inclusive. Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine was ranked second overall, and was the only internal medicine program ranked. This is a relatively novel approach to receiving feedback regarding […]
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Dr. Damani Piggott, Assistant Dean for Graduate Biomedical Education and Graduate Student Diversity, will become the inaugural director of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative and Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships effective July 1, 2021. Dr. Piggott graduated from Morehouse College summa cum laude as the class valedictorian. He received his M.D. and […]
The Diversity Council of the Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP is the 17th Annual Myron L. Weisfeldt Distinguished Visiting Professor. Dr. Carmen E. Guerra is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School […]
April is National Minority Health Month. The observance dates back to 1915, inspired by Booker T. Washington, and gained support from Congress in 2002, but the need for it has only been amplified by a year-long pandemic that has disproportionally affected minority populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought social and racial injustice and inequity to […]
Dr. Sherita Golden, professor in the Division of Endocrinology, was appointed to the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Committee from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). The committee will be engaged in ensuring that the ASCI promotes diversity, inclusion and equity and includes leaders form medical schools across the country. Committee Members: Sophie Paczesny, MD, […]
February is National Black History Month. Coming off a year marked by a greater awareness of structural racism in essentially all societal domains—even our schools and hospitals—Black History Month is more important than ever. Black History Month began in 1926, when historian Carter G. Woodson proposed celebrating as a means to recognize the tremendous contributions […]