Welcome to the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity. Together, we seek to further our mission to cultivate all perspectives, understand each patient, collaborate with our community and create health equity.
Our Mission
To provide content expertise and programmatic support to institutional leadership and to recruit, promote, retain, and engage those underrepresented in medicine, science, nursing, and healthcare administration so that we can achieve health equity for the most vulnerable populations.
Our Vision
We envision a Johns Hopkins Medicine where diversity, equity, and inclusion are in our DNA, and where together we commit to:
- Embracing and celebrating our differences
- Educating and developing our staff and learners
- Engaging in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices
JHM Equity Statement
The JHM Equity Statement reflects our effort to create a safe work and learning environment where we embody respect and collegiality for our colleagues, patients and community. View the Equity Statement video
Announcements from the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity
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Dear Colleagues,
Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are essential qualities of great leaders. Levi Watkins Jr. — world-renowned cardiac surgeon, civil rights pioneer, and founder of our Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration — embodied those qualities and more. He left the Johns Hopkins community and so many others with this extraordinary legacy. In his honor, we are opening nominations for the 2024 Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. Ideals Award.
This award, which is distinct from the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service, recognizes a Johns Hopkins Medicine leader at the level of manager or above who has made outstanding contributions to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Previous recipients include:
Inez Stewart, senior vice president and chief human resources officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine
Denis Antoine, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kathleen Page, associate professor of infectious disease at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Sherita Hill Golden, vice president and chief diversity officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine
Kenneth Grant, former vice president, supply chain, for the Johns Hopkins Health System.
The winners of this award show unwavering commitment to Johns Hopkins’ core values of excellence and discovery, leadership and integrity, diversity and inclusion, and respect and collegiality. Eligible candidates must demonstrate a breadth of contributions to a greater cause through extensive career experience.
To nominate a colleague or yourself, complete an online form by Monday, Nov. 7. The award’s review panel of Johns Hopkins employees will confirm the selection in November. The awardee will be recognized as part of the annual MLK Jr. Commemoration event on January 12, 2024.
We look forward to your nominations.
Thank you,
The Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee
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The purpose of our annual reports is to summarize in one location the progress on the diversity, inclusion, and health equity strategic plan each year. It also provides a resources for us to communicate our accomplishments to our internal and external community.
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Over the past two years, the Johns Hopkins Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity has spearheaded and supported increased community outreach, new allyship and anti-oppression resources and training, town hall discussions, health equity legislation and more.
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As we face this unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to highlight available resources for our Johns Hopkins employees and the within our community as well as answer questions regarding the vaccine.
- Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Resources
- Video: COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Playlist on YouTube
- Video: Pfizer and Moderna Vaccine Clinical Trial Demographics
- Video People of Color and COVID-19: Addressing Health Disparities and Vaccine Equity
- Center for American Indian Health: COVID-19 Resources for Native American Communities
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL)
- COVID-19 Vaccine Support Centers
- Maryland: 1 (855) 634-6829
- DC: 1 (855) 363-0333
- Virginia: 1 (877) 829-4682
- Pennsylvania: 1 (877) 724-3258
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To achieve JHM's mission, we must create a culture where diversity and inclusion are in our DNA. We must embrace and celebrate our differences; recruit, educate and develop our staff and learners; and engage in equitable health care delivery and workforce practices. The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity has created a comprehensive Strategic Plan that will help our organization further support the well-being of our people and communities, push the boundaries of science and education, aim for precision in everything we do and improve the quality and affordability of health care.
View this introductory video for our 2023 Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Strategic Plan
View a video overview of the Diversity and Inclusion - Innovation Roadmap 2023 Strategic Plan
2023 MLK Day of Service
On January 20, 2023, JHM resumed our annual MLK Day of Service with roughly 235 Hopkins members volunteer at 17 local charities. Our appreciation to those who took the time to support these organizations. Learn more about the organizations we partnered with this year and view pictures of volunteers at work. Please continue to support these organizations' efforts in the community. #HopkinsBetterTogether
Managing Crucial Conversations
These sessions were held for managers and leadership to offer strategies on how to manage emotionally charged conversations resulting from the 2020 social unrest, racial dialogues and election. This is a recording of one of the sessions as well as a compilation of Q&A from the three sessions.