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Equity at DGSOM and UCLA Health

We believe overturning long-standing systemic injustices to achieve equitable health care for all requires a holistic approach, one that benefits from the insight of both social and biological sciences and reaches across a spectrum of activities, including research, patient care, education, dialogue, and partnership. 

We aspire toward this approach, and the better future it promises, by keeping health equity in the foreground of all our actions and decisions.

Let us know how we are doing, suggest new initiatives that would be important to you, or give feedback on an existing one. We want to hear from you as our landscape changes!

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How does UCLA Health define Health Equity?

Health Equity is when everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

Health EDI Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to serve as an initial guide for individuals, teams and departments to increase awareness and drive change toward greater equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI) and anti-racism within the UCLA Hospital and Clinic System. The toolkit consists of selected readings, videos and discussion questions to increase the understanding of important EDI and anti-racism principles and practices. 

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Understand Foundations, Build Stronger Systems

Human health depends on complex interactions between biological and social systems. To better understand these interactions, the DGSOM prioritizes an interdisciplinary community of scientists, organized into 7 unified research themes.

The newest of these themes is the Health Equity and Translational Social Science Research Theme. The theme was born out of a joint mission of the UCLA Health System and DGSOM to collaboratively study and promote equitable health care. 

A two pronged approach:

  1. Move health equity to the foreground in all of UCLA’s research efforts while developing and studying new forms of health care that address social-structural determinants of health.
  2. To foster social sciences as fundamental sciences of medicine.

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Health Equity Initiatives, Stories, and Studies

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MLK SYMPOSIUM

Strengthening Medical Trust within the Black Community during COVID-19.

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UCLA and Venice Family Clinic Work to Address Food Insecurity

FOOD INSECURITY

UCLA community and Venice Family Clinic work to address food insecurity.

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New UCLA center to focus on health, safety and well-being of LGBTQ community

LGBTQ COMMUNITY

New UCLA center to focus on health, safety and well-being of LGBTQ community.

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How does UCLA Health define Equity, Diversity and Inclusion?

UCLA HEALTH

Why is Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (HEDI) at UCLA Health important?

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