Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Meeting the Needs of Our Patients
- In-Person Interpreter Services for more than 8 languages, including the 2 most common dialects of Chinese
Interpreter Services Demographics (FY20)

Total Encounters per Fiscal Year

- Asian Community Health Focus – meeting the health needs of the surrounding community with health care professionals who speak Asian languages
- LGBTQ+ Health – providing both routine and sub-specialized services to the LGBTQ community
Anti-Racism Task Force
- Who we are: Karen Freund; Richard Kopelman; Laura Snydman; Imrana Qawi; Suriya Jeyapalan; Arhant Rao; Seda Babroudi; Sami Hamdan
- Mission statement: Making our department a space where everyone belongs and is part of the conversation
- Initiatives
- Bias Reduction in Medicine Training
- Monthly noon conferences dedicated to topics directly related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; examples include Addressing Code Status with Non-English Speaking Patients; Complex Care
- Management and Trauma-Informed Care; Anti-Racism in Medicine: Awareness to Action
- Visiting Clerkship Program for Students Underrepresented in Medicine
Health Equity Research
- Program on Equity in Science and Health – addressing research disparities in health care and diversity in the biomedical workforce
- Quality Improvement Dashboard of the Department of Medicine – a resident-led initiative in which a registry was created to study and address potential health disparities amongst patients admitted to Tufts Medical Center
- Participation in the NKF-ASN Task Force to reassess inclusion of race in the diagnosing kidney disease Race-Equation
Affiliated Institutions and Health Systems
• Tufts University School of Medicine
• Tufts Medicine Health System