Resources

• Diversity and Equity Speaker Series

  View recordings of Diversity and Equity Speaker Series HERE.

• Definition of terms
  • APA Inclusive Language Guidelines 2021
  • Be explicit: Defining the difference between the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and the Office of Diversity & Equity
• Allyship
  • White allyship of Afro-Diasporic women in the workplace: A transformative strategy for organizational change
  • Engaging in the Process of Allyship: LGBTQ+ Community
  • Allies against sexism: The role of men in confronting sexism
  • The role of nurses as allies against racism and discrimination: An analysis of key resistance movements of our time
• Implicit bias
  • Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review
  • A decade of studying implicit racial/ethnic bias in healthcare providers using the implicit association test
  • Instilling new habits: addressing implicit bias in healthcare professionals
• Microaggressions
  • The Microaggressions Triangle Model: A Humanistic Approach to Navigating Microaggressions in Health Professions Schools
  • Twelve tips for responding to microaggressions and overt discrimination: When the patient offends the learner
  • Interrupting microaggressions in health care settings: a guide for teaching medical students
• Culturally competency, cultural humility, and structural competency
  • AMA-AAMC: Advancing Health Equity: Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts 
  • Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care
  • The efficacy of an antioppression curriculum for health professionals
  • Structural competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality
  • Structural competency in the US healthcare crisis: putting social and policy interventions into clinical practice
  • Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education
• Black/African American
  • Recruitment and retention: the development of an action plan for African-American health professions students.
  • Bias, black lives, and academic medicine
• Hispanic/ Latinx community
  • Hispanic Identity and Its Inclusion in the Race Discrimination Discourse in the United States.
  • Application of the caring curriculum to education of Hispanic/Latino and American Indian nursing students
  • Perceived barriers and needed supports for today's Hispanic students in the health professions: Voices of seasoned Hispanic health care professionals
• Disability
  • Addressing mental illness stigma, implicit bias, and stereotypes in medical school
  • Educating health professionals about disability: a review of interventions
  • Disability and the training of health professionals
  • Disability and the curriculum in US graduate schools of public health.
  • Ableist microaggressions and the mental health of disabled adults
• LGBTQ+
  • Do Contact and Empathy Mitigate Bias Against Gay and Lesbian People Among Heterosexual First-Year Medical Students? A Report From the Medical Student CHANGE Study
  • Implicit bias against sexual minorities in medicine: cycles of professional influence and the role of the hidden curriculum
  • Creating welcoming spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients: An evaluation of the health care environment.
  • Preparing future physicians to care for LGBT patients: a medical school curriculum.
  • Outcome and impact evaluation of a transgender health course for health profession students
• Veterans
  • Connecting the dots: interprofessional health education and delivery system redesign at the Veterans Health Administration
  • A curriculum for training quality scholars to improve the health and health care of veterans and the community at large
  • Experiences of trauma, discrimination, microaggressions, and minority stress among trauma-exposed LGBT veterans: Unexpected findings and unresolved service …
  • US veterans and their unique issues: enhancing health care professional awareness
  • Honoring those who have served: how can health professionals provide optimal care for members of the military, veterans, and their families?

• Native American

  Unconscious biases: Racial microaggressions in American Indian health care

• Pacific Islander
  • Toward improved health: disaggregating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander data.
  • Health indicators of native Hawaiian and pacific islanders in the United States
• Pipeline programs
  • Pipeline programs in the health professions, part 1: preserving diversity and reducing health disparities
  • Increasing diversity in the health professions: reflections on student pipeline programs
  • Addressing health care disparities and increasing workforce diversity: the next step for the dental, medical, and public health professions
  • Improving health care career pipeline programs for underrepresented students: Program design that makes a difference
• Workforce
  • Disparities in human resources: addressing the lack of diversity in the health professions
  • Developing workforce diversity in the health professions: a social justice perspective
  • Recruiting and training a health professions workforce to meet the needs of tomorrow's health care system
• Religion

  Religious characteristics of US physicians

• Women
  • Avoiding gender bias in reference writing
  • Feminisation of the health workforce and wage conditions of health professions: an exploratory analysis
  • Reducing implicit gender leadership bias in academic medicine with an educational intervention.
  • Persistence of Sexual Harassment and Gender Bias in Medicine Across Generations—Us Too
  • Achieving Gender Equity Is Our Responsibility

Student Organizations

MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School

• Association of Minority Biomedical Researchers (AMBR)
• First Generation Student Group (First-Gen Student Group)
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ Student Alliance (LGBTQ+SA)

School of Biomedical Informatics

Coming soon

School of Dentistry

• Academy of Latter-Day Saints Dentists Student Chapter
• Hispanic Student Dental Association
• Houston Dental Christian Medical Dental Association
• Muslim Dental Association
• Pride-N-Practice
• Texas Association of Women Dentists

McGovern Medical School

• Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association
• LGBTQ+ Health
• Student National Medical Association
• Latino Medical Association
• South Asian Medical Student Association
• Military Medical Student Association

Cizik School of Nursing

Prayer Group

School of Public Health

• Black Excellence in Public Health
• Society for Women & Leadership (SWAL)