Diversity at HMS

Diversity at HMS

Harvard Medical School strives to cultivate an environment that promotes inclusiveness and collaboration among students, faculty and staff and to create new avenues for discussion that will advance our shared mission to improve the health of people throughout the world.

• Read our Diversity Statement
• HMS Cares - resources available throughout our community to air grievances and address issues as they arise

Better Together Plan

The work of the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion (TFDI) and its subcommittees culminated in The Better Together Plan.  Three main committees were convened and continue to meet regularly to carry out the goals set forth in the Plan.

• Diversity and Inclusion Committee
• Diversity Council
• Quad Diversity Committee
• Ad Hoc Committees

Ad Hoc Committees met for shorter periods of time to meet targeted goals.

Events

• NEJM Series The Historical Roots of Injustice in Medicine: Symposium 3
• NEJM Series the Historical Roots of Injustice in Medicine: Symposium 2
• Better Together Dialogue: Justice
• NEJM Series The Historical Roots of Injustice in Medicine: Symposium 1
• Better Together Dialogue: Unlocking Cultural Healing
• Better Together Dialogue: Maladies of Empire
• Better Together Dialogue: Reflections on Medicine, Racism, and Society
• Better Together Dialogue: “El Doctocito”
• Better Together Dialogue: Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools