Better Together
Mutual Respect and Public Disclosure Committee
Harvard Medical School is committed to a diversity of views and to principles of free inquiry and expression, consistent with the HMS Mission and Community Values. All members of the Harvard community have the right to hold and vigorously defend and promote their opinions. Ultimately, HMS seeks not to negate, overlook, deny or simply tolerate the qualities that distinguish us but aspires to understand, recognize, appreciate, and indeed, celebrate our differences.
These qualities require HMS to emphasize certain values which are essential to its nature as an academic community. Among these are freedom of speech; freedom of movement; freedom from personal intimidation, force and violence; and freedom from hate speech, which is “any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, religion, skin color, sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity, disability or national origin.” Interference with any of these freedoms must be regarded as a serious violation of the personal rights upon which the community is based.
These values imply certain rights and responsibilities for all who attend and participate in HMS lectures, seminars, presentations or demonstrations that are held publicly, privately or virtually.
Co-Chairs
Gretchen Brodnicki
Dean for Faculty and Research Integrity
Harvard Medical School
Robert Truog
Director, Harvard Center for Bioethics
Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine
Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics)
Harvard Medical School
Members
Carol Bates, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Kayla Davis, Registered student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Laura DeCoste, Executive Director of Development Communications & Donor Engagement
Robert Dickson, Director of Campus Services
Xavier Du Maine, Diversity Fellow
James Gould, Director, Office for Post-Doctoral Programs and Services
Johanna Gutlerner, Associate Dean for Graduate Education
Simone Leary, Interim Chief Human Resources Officer
Willy Lensch, Executive Director, Greater Boston Consortium on Pathogen Readiness and Strategic Advisor
LaShyra Nolen, Registered student in the Medical School
Jennifer Potter, Advisory Dean and Director William Bosworth Castle Society, Professor of Medicine
Joan Reede, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Professor of Medicine
Aljani Stanley, Director of Administration