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Workforce Diversity & Health Equity

Developing a diverse workforce and advancing health equity are essential to improving access to high-quality care for underserved populations and increasing the innovation of health research. That's why we created a dedicated team to collect and share findings of workforce diversification and health equity assessments to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.

Contact Information
Jodie Moore
jodierze@umich.edu

A diverse healthcare and health research workforce is better positioned to be responsive to the cultural values, beliefs, and practices of the communities served, and provide equitable, respectful, and linguistically appropriate care. Advancing health equity helps to reduce preventable differences in patient health outcomes and ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

The IHPI Workforce Diversity & Health Equity team focuses on ways to increase innovation and research through diverse leadership and create health equity-driven health and healthcare policies.

To get involved, contact Dana Brown.

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IHPI’s Workforce Diversity & Health Equity Initiative

The Workforce Diversity & Health Equity initiative at IHPI focuses on ways to increase innovation and research through diverse leadership and create health equity-driven health and healthcare policies. In this video, members of the initiative share the latest progress from its three workgroups: Faculty Recruitment & Retention, Career Advancement & Leadership Development, and Inequities in Care Delivery at Michigan Medicine. 

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