Committee actions will be coordinated on Slack (we will teach you!), a communication and workflow app for teams with many overlapping projects. The committees that are listed below are a jumping off point - please select the committees closest to your interest and things can always evolve from there! Some examples:

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• Rhode Island Department of Health

  • ​declaring racism a public health crisis

  • calls for defunding/disarming/disbanding/abolishing the police

  • spearheading Annual Report and Action Plan on Racial Health Outcomes

• Lifespan/Care New England

  • institutional efforts around equity, diversity, inclusion; including diversifying the healthcare workforce

  • anonymous reporting portal for aggressions

  • improved community engagement 

• Residency Recruitment

  • Retention and recruitment of diverse residents in every department

• Anti-Racism Curriculum

  • abolishing race-based medicine 

  • organizing and sharing resources and people power for workshops, didactics, lectures around structural racism

• Warren Alpert Medical School/GME/Brown Physicians Inc

  • Increasing Diversity at the Faculty Level

  • Making a track-record of working towards increasing diversity a requirement for hiring/promotion

  • Supporting student-centered actions, including but not limited to ones demanded by AMS Affinity Groups United:

    • Publish disaggregated demographic admissions data

    • Fund Anti-Racism Training for all faculty, staff and administration

    • Overhaul racist education

    • Organization of URiM Focus Groups with faculty, administration and students

    • Protecting student advocacy; no medical student should fear retaliation or retribution for raising concerns against the medical school, Brown University, or affiliated institutions. 

    • Investigation of disparities in remediation, that includes creation of a de-identified database, containing a large number of variables, including race, in which we can examine reasons why students of color may be overrepresented in regard to exam remediation and time away from medical school

    • Increased admission of Black and other URiM students through the standards admission route

    • Diversify faculty and administration