Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences incorporated diversity strategic planning into the revision of the One RBHS: The Way Forward 2022-2027 strategic planning process.
Our people are at the heart of a successful One RBHS. We are focused on developing, supporting, and promoting our diverse workforce including our students and trainees who represent our future.
We are focused on fostering excellence in the delivery of health professions and biomedical sciences education by leveraging our strengths to recruit, train, support, and prepare a diverse and highly competitive New Jersey biomedical and health sciences workforce.
We want to ensure that, as a public institution, we are engaged with our local and global communities to advance research, education, and clinical care through service that addresses relevant community health challenges and needs.
We aim to recognize and celebrate our different experiences, and promote a climate of inclusion, respect, and belonging for all, forming a ‘beloved community.’ Personal, leadership, and institutional collective accountability are paramount to successfully achieving this goal.
We aim to enhance systems and structures that will enable RBHS to fulfill its mission and succeed in implementing its overall and DEI related strategic goals, such as ensuring efficient systems, structures, and processes.
The newly formed Diversity Strategic Planning Implementation and Assessment Committee will support forward movement at RBHS.
Meet the members of this longstanding group that has provided insight and leadership for diversity efforts at RBHS.
Learn more about new and ongoing initiatives that help forward Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences's diversity goals.
The RBHS Anti-Racism Initiative was launched in Fall 2020 and aims to ensure that we are actively anti-racist in all our people-related practices, in our classrooms, clinical settings, and throughout our workplace.
The AEM longitudinal program is designed to build a community of practice, engage faculty, foster leadership skills, provide mentoring, and expand networking opportunities for faculty at RBHS.
The RBHS Staff Mentoring Program (SMP) was launched in January 2021 as a pilot program. The goals of the program are to promote a culture of mentorship, professional development, and collaboration amongst staff members.
RBHS is an early collaborator in the SEA Change Biomedicine Bronze Awards pilot, which aims to work with senior leadership of medical schools and academic health sciences centers to develop the SEA Change Biomedicine framework and metrics.
The annual RBHS diversity, equity, and inclusion symposium is part of the overall Rutgers “Building an Inclusive Academy” initiative.
Sharing our experiences in health care, especially during intense, emotional, or stressful times increases our connectedness and well-being.
The IDEA Innovation Grant Program in RBHS has two goals:
