Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work Group
We are a group of faculty, staff and student representatives who formed in Winter 2020 to address the need to improve the Department of Maternal and Child Health’s curriculum, workforce and training to support diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to transparency in the process of meeting, organizing and taking action steps toward antiracism and inclusive excellence. This website serves as a means of publicly sharing our initial charges, subcommittee leaders and meeting minutes with the wider community. Please contact any of the subcommittee leaders to get involved with activities and meetings and to contribute to the conversation and action steps.
MCH Culture of Equity Report
Subcommittee Charges (Excel)
Department IE Update Fall 2021
MCH DEI Meeting Notes
MCH DEI Co-Leads Meeting
Curriculum Subcommittee
Chair
Dr. Kavita Singh Ongechi
Curriculum Subcommittee Meeting Notes
March 24, 2022 (PDF)
January 26, 2022 (PDF)
June 23, 2021 (PDF)
April 6, 2021 (PDF)
February 12, 2021 (PDF)
December 3, 2020 (PDF)
Diversity and Support Subcommittee
Co-chairs
Dr. Ilene Speizer
Laarni Lapat, MPH Candidate ’23
Diversity and Support Subcommittee Notes
March 28, 2022 (PDF)
January 31, 2022 (PDF)
April 2021 (PDF)
January 21, 2021 (PDF)
November 30, 2020 (PDF)
Training Subcommittee
Chair
Dr. Christine Tucker
Training Subcommittee Meeting Notes
May 26, 2021 (PDF)
May 26, 2021 Presentation (PPT)
April 11, 2021 (PDF)
April 1, 2021 (PDF)
February 4, 2021 Presentation (PPT)
January 11, 2021 (PDF)
December 1, 2020 (PDF)
Resources
Gillings School Inclusion Resources
Teaching Resources
- Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies from Univ. Of Michigan (website of a resource collection)
- Article = Rethinking the Course Syllabus: Considerations for Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; Fuentes, Zelaya, and Madsen, Sept 2020.
- Inclusion By Design: Survey Your Syllabus and Course Design (worksheet); review the context + design of your course, the “text” of the syllabus and course design, and the subtext of the syllabus.
- Creating an Inclusive Syllabus Tool from Univ of Kansas’s Center for Teaching Excellence, including self-assessment tool, resources, actions, and examples.
- Equity Rubric for Course (re)design from Peralta Community Colleges; helps highlight potential bias and incorporate more universal design.
- An inclusive classroom self-assessment worksheet; goes through curriculum, learning environment, interactions with students, colleagues; take you through several scored questions in various focus areas. *need to verify the source
- Tools for Inclusive Teaching (resource collection website) by USC Rossier School of Education
- First-Generation College Students as Academic Learners: A Systematic Review (stemming from the conversation on knowing better how to support 1st gen students)
- Teach me: the language we use in medicine influences how we perceive discussions around racism and healthcare (Instagram Thread)
- Responding to Microaggressions in the Classroom: Taking ACTION
- UNC Accessibility Resources and Service
- Microresistance as a Way to Respond to Microaggressions on Zoom and in Real Life
