Diversity and Inclusion

The Connecticut Children’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee is comprised of residents, fellows, attending faculty and hospital staff who are focused on expanding the diversity and inclusion within the Pediatric Training Programs to include participants from groups underrepresented in medicine (URM), and to become more representative of the populations we serve. In doing so, we hope to increase interest of URM applicants to our fellowship program, create an environment where URM fellows feel supported and provide our patients with physician role-models.

Faculty development is provided the Department of Pediatrics to address bias and identify barriers to opportunity and inclusion, recent events have included:

  • Pediatric Residency Professionalism Series (in which PEM Faculty participate) include event on "Macro Skills for Microaggressions: Tools for Understanding Microaggressions and How to Respond"
  • Annual Connecticut Children's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Symposium
  • Pediatric Grand Rounds Series (attended by PEM Faculty and fellows) included multiple relevant events this academic year including:
    • "The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health", Jackie Douge, M.D., MPH
    • "Improving Provider Communication When Working with Youth with Stigmatizing Conditions", Melissa Santos, Ph.D - Connecticut Children's
    • "Speak To the Wounds: What we need to know about racial trauma and radical healing during uncertain times" Wizdom Powell, PhD, MPH, MS - UConn Health
    • "Restoring Dignity: Addressing Structural Racism, Childhood Adversity, and Child Health through Reimagined Community Partnerships" Renee Boynton-Jarrett, M.D.
    • "Grand Strategy and Global Health: The Case of Ethiopia 2006-2016" Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D
    • "Racism: A Societal Pathogen" Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, M.D., MPH - Baylor College of Medicine
  • Pediatric Subspecialty Fellows' Core Curriculum includes training on health disparities and cultural competency, including the following events this past academic year
    • "Health Disparities & Social Determinants of Health" Allison Matthew-Wilson, Manager-Clinical Social Work
    • Diversity and Inclusion Workshop" with Lisa Marella, CCMC Director of Organizational Effectiveness; Larry Milan CCMC Senior Vice President Human Resources