Anti-Racism Knowledge Gaps

We are addressing anti-racism knowledge gaps by providing learning and development opportunities for UCSF staff, students, faculty, partners, and community members to increase understanding of how historic and current policies, norms, and practices contribute to disparate life outcomes across racial and ethnic groups, and introduce best practices to dismantle systemic racism.

Core Areas of Work

UCSF-Wide Training

Foundations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Training
A mandatory online training module to provide all members of our community with foundational knowledge and common language to better understand why diversity is core to our work at UCSF. It is an important first step in our collective effort to live our PRIDE Values and ensure that our Campus and Health systems are free of bias, discrimination, and hate.

Curricular

Graduate Division
In September 202, the Graduate Division published the Steps Towards Dismantling Systemic Racism and Anti-Blackness in UCSF Basic Science PhD Programs Task Force Recommendations Report. See their website for progress and latest updates.

School of Dentistry
Since 2021, the School of Dentistry has required all incoming students to complete required readings on anti-racism. To learn about other initiatives and updates on their DEI efforts, see here.

School of Medicine
Launched in July 2021, the School of Medicine’s Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative was established to reinforce and expand the work of Differences Matter and the Bridges Curriculum’s Social Justice pillar. It is a key curricular element of the UCSF School of Medicine’s anti-racism work.

School of Nursing
All master’s level students are now required to complete the course “Racism, Health Care and Social Justice,” to expand understanding of structural racism’s impact on health. See more updates from the School of Nursing’s DEI office.

School of Pharmacy
In 2021-2022, the School of Pharmacy’s faculty and students collaborated to incorporate anti-racism in the curriculum, achieve health equity, and improve how the PharmD program handles issues of race and equity. Learn more on their progress and latest updates here.

Leaders and Managers

DEI Leadership Group Coaching
This program helps managers to become more inclusive and impactful leaders at UCSF by creating time and space to explore the intra- and interpersonal dynamics of their racial identity and its impact on leadership.

Institute of Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism Leadership (IDEAL) Academy
IDEAL is an educational program for diversity leaders across UCSF with the goal of increasing competencies to advance the goals of the Anti-Racism Initiative. This includes elevating their work on diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism (DEIA), supporting professional development with trainings and experiences in DEIA, and furthering education and scholarship on the history and impact of racism in the health sciences.

Faculty & Staff

Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program (DICP)
This training is a cohort model education course designed to further equip the UCSF workforce with knowledge and skills to support DEI initiatives and best practices. DICP focuses on exploring DEI concepts essential to enhancing an inclusive work environment through lecture, experiential and independent activities.

Truth & Reconciliation

Program for Historical Reconciliation
The program aims to investigate and report on institutional history that we know contradicts UCSF community and ethical values. The program conducts research into institutional legacies or any claims of past unethical conduct relating to biomedical and clinical research, the University's relationship to our community and industry, and material artifacts that the University holds.

The REParations and Anti-Institutional Racism (REPAIR) Project
The REPAIR Project is a strategic initiative designed to address Anti-Black Racism and augment Black, Indigenous, People of Color voices and presence in science, medicine, andhealthcare.

Healers at the Gate
In partnership with GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice, this healthcare training program brings together campus security supervisors, nurses and nursing supervisors, social workers, and other healthcare professionals from across UCSF to interact and commune, in service and dialogue, with people impacted by racism, homelessness, and substance abuse.

Alabama Pilgrimage
In partnership with GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice, UCSF employees participate in a five-day immersive journey and experiential learning program in Alabama that aims to critically examine American history; highlight inequities in health, economic, and criminal justice outcomes; articulate connections between slavery and mass incarceration; and interrupt current, incomplete narratives about oppression, crime, and punishment.

How We Are Doing

The Foundations of DEI Training was launched in January 2021. All UCSF faculty, learners and staff must complete this training. The following dashboard shows the number of trainings completed by UCSF members to date.