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Diversity Center of Excellence

Education Core of the Cornell Center for Health Equity

Projects

The Weill Cornell Diversity Center of Excellence builds on Weill Cornell Medicine’s long-standing commitment to diversity in order to increase the number of underrepresented in medicine (URM) physicians in the workforce and in academic medicine. This is achieved through various activities.

June 24, 2021

The Covid-19 Vaccine Intensive Outreach Equity Program is a quality improvement assessment and intervention to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rates of Black and Hispanic patients cared for at...

June 24, 2021

Faculty lead: Andrea Card, MD, MPH dcoe-premed@medcornelledu Health disparities across racial and ethnic groups has been well documented In medicine, racial and ethnic minorities (Black, Latinx,...

June 24, 2021

The Diversity Center of Excellence (DCoE), the Education Core of the Cornell Center for Health Equity (CCHEq), builds on Weill Cornell’s long-standing commitment to diversity by working with...

June 22, 2021

Project lead: Linnie Golightly, MD WCM Faculty Development Circles focuses on underrepresented in medicine (URM) faculty who seek professional advancement in academic medicine This program is...

June 22, 2021

The objectives of the Diversity Mentoring Cascade program is to: facilitate professional growth and development; leverage diversity and experiences in order to empower URM trainees to...

May 26, 2021

The Covid-19 Community Education Empowerment Program, a collaboration of New York City medical schools, will recruit underrepresented in medicine, first generation, and disadvantaged college and gap...

May 26, 2021

The Vaccine Ambassadors Training is aimed at providing our partners, physicians and trainees, with information and resources on how to talk to patients and community members about Covid...

May 24, 2021

The mission of the Health Equity Research Training Fellowship is to train underrepresented minority physicians through a two-year research fellowship and is part of the Weill Cornell Medicine General...

May 23, 2021

Community education and empowerment is central to addressing health inequities A growing number of initiatives are focused on providing services and resources to community members  As a result of...