The first workshop of our Cohorts for Change series will focus on how to talk about racism & racial equity with radical candor, as well as understand key terms related to racial equity work.
Facilitator Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda and CLIC selected the materials in the “Resources” tab to encourage introspection, explain the importance of being actively anti-racist, and describe how to take steps towards inclusivity and accessibility at your CTSA Program hub.
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CLIC Cohorts for Change Workshop Series Kickoff & Webpage Launch
The CLIC Cohorts for Change workshop series will be kicking off in October! This 6-month training program will focus on giving participants the knowledge and skills to further develop structural and administrative anti-racism initiatives within their CTSA Program hub. The series combines monthly live group discussions and activities with experienced facilitators plus asynchronous learning
Black Voices in Research: University of Florida CTSI Provides a Platform for Underrepresented Voices
The University of Florida CTSI is examining long-standing and unspoken issues of racial injustice, equality and diversity within the working environment of the clinical research professional workforce. Dressed in black, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda stood on a stage and spoke about her experience as a Black research professional working to eliminate personal biases in scientists. “Most of the
From Insights to Action
From Insights to Action – a resource for hubs looking for ways to increase the diversity of their clinical science workforce. Looking for new strategies for your KL2 or TL1 program? Are you worried about a lack of diversity and inclusion within your institution? How are you ensuring the diversity of the clinical science workforce? Not sure where to start? From Insights to Action is a collection of
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Cohorts for Change Facilitator: Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda
Learn more about our first workshop facilitator, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda!
CLIC Cohorts for Change Workshop Series Kickoff & Webpage Launch
The CLIC Cohorts for Change Workshop Series will begin in October!
CTSA-Specific Resources
From Insights to Action
CLIC
Looking for new strategies for your KL2 or TL1 program? Are you worried about a lack of diversity and inclusion within your institution? How are you ensuring the diversity of the clinical science workforce? Not sure where to start? From Insights to Action is a collection of actionable questions inspired by hubs’ stories of ongoing progress and success in the Careers in Clinical & Translational
Creating Safe and Inclusive Environments for Faculty and Students in the Biomedical Setting
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With the presence of #MeToo, Time’s Up Healthcare, and diversity and inclusion efforts broadly at member institutions, leaders in academic medicine are increasingly aware of the need to create safe and inclusive environments. Recent studies have highlighted the prevalence and profound impact of sexual and gender harassment. Institutional leaders are looking for best practices to create safe
Other Resources
5 Ways to Make a Real Improvement in Hiring Black Professors
Article by J. Luke Wood
Resource selected by workshop facilitator, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda
How San Diego State University has increased its Black faculty members by 12 since the summer of George Floyd protests.
Black Voices in Research – Episode 1
Recording of UF CTSI DC3’s Black Voices in Research Storytelling Event, featuring: Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD Taylor Williams, Shantrell Canidate, PhD Erica Guerrido, MPH, CPH Samuel Inkabi Tiffany Daniel Chisholm Pineda Erika Moore, PhD
Resource selected by workshop facilitator, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda
As part of its mission to facilitate honest and vulnerable conversations about race, the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute Diversity and Cultural Competence Council (UF CTSI DC3) presents its inaugural Black Voices in Research Storytelling Event. This event and others like it will serve to underscore the inherent value of sharing personal stories and the role that these stories can play in creating and promoting an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible community.
Black Voices in Research – Episode 2: Juneteenth
Recording of UF CTSI DC3’s Black Voices in Research Storytelling Event, featuring: Joseph A. Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., Brittany Southern, D.V.M., E. Stanley Richardson, Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda
Resource selected by workshop facilitator, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda
As part of its mission to facilitate honest and vulnerable conversations about race, the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute Diversity and Cultural Competence Council (UF CTSI DC3) presents its inaugural Black Voices in Research Storytelling Event. This event and others like it will serve to underscore the inherent value of sharing personal stories and the role that these stories can play in creating and promoting an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible community.
Invisibility of Anti-Asian Racism
Article in AMA Journal of Ethics by Audiey C. Kao, MD, PhD
Resource selected by workshop facilitator, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda
Imagine being confined and feeling trapped in your own house or apartment for months on end, afraid to leave the relative safety of your home because contact with other people could possibly bring you harm. Being isolated at home without an end in sight is no way to live. Fear, anxiety, depression, and even anger become your quarantine companions. During this past year, most of us can wholly grasp and empathize with this state of pandemic being.
Now consider living this way for a reason other than a pandemic: your hesitancy and trepidation about walking out the door is because some hate you enough to harm you … just because of how you look. What is worse than being a target yourself is conjuring up a worst-case scenario befalling your mother or elderly family member halfway across the country or college-age nephews and nieces living away from home for the first time. This inescapable torment is the current reality for many Asians, Asian Americans, and Asian-appearing people in this country.
Being Antiracist
Article by the National Museum of African American History & Culture
To create an equal society, we must commit to making unbiased choices and being antiracist in all aspects of our lives.
Webinar # 1 | Naming and Addressing Racism: A Primer
Recorded Webinar by the American Public Health Association (APHA)
APHA President Shiriki Kumanyika discusses how racism is one of the most challenging tools of social stratification we face when trying to improve the health of the public. She also reflects on the evidence and research needs related to how racism limits our ability to make America the healthiest nation. APHA President-Elect Camara Jones tells the Gardener’s Tale and presents a framework for understanding racism on three levels. This framework is useful for understanding the basis for race-associated differences in health, designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences and engaging in a national conversation.
View the full webinar series here: https://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/webinars/racism-and-health
Naming Racism
Recorded Webinar by the Harvard Radcliffe Institution
Amid nationwide unrest, deep distrust, and renewal of long-ignored calls for systemic change, how do we mobilize efforts to create a society in which the color of your skin is not the difference between life and death? Camara Phyllis Jones and David R. Williams will explore how we might overcome, in Jones’s words, “the somnolence of racism denial,” dismantle the system of racism, and put in its place a system in which all people can thrive.
The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist
TedTalk by Ibram X. Kendi
There is no such thing as being “not racist,” says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world — and replace it with love.
How to overcome biases? Walk boldly towards them
TedTalk by Vernā Myers
Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable.
Living Language Guide
Resource by Boston University
This Living Language Guide is an ever-changing glossary of diversity and inclusion-related terms curated by BU D&I. The terminologies and definitions you will see are not Boston University’s recommended or mandated terminology, but rather this Living Language Guide is a resource for all as we continue to shift the culture, build capacity, and create community together. BU will continually update definitions and add new terms as language continues to evolve.
California and the Changing Narrative on Diversity, Equity and Health
Publication by Paul Hsu, Mara C. Bryant, Teodocia M. Hayes-Bautista, Keosha R. Partlow, and David E. Hayes-Bautista
“The historical narrative on diversity, race, and health would predict that California’s population change from 22 percent racial/ethnic minority in 1970 to 62 percent in 2016 would lead to a massive health crisis with high mortality rates, low life expectancy, and high infant mortality rates—particularly given the state’s high rates of negative social determinants of health: poverty, high school incompletion, and uninsurance. We present data that suggest an alternative narrative: In spite of these negative factors, California has very low rates of mortality and infant mortality and long life expectancy. This alternative implies that racial diversity may offer opportunities for good health outcomes and that community agency may be a positive determinant. Using national-level mortality data on racial/ethnic groups, we suggest that new theoretical models and methods be developed to assist the US in achieving high-level wellness as it too becomes ‘majority minority.'”