CUNY School of Medicine

The CSOM Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Policy states that the mission of the school is to "increase the number of practitioners from social, ethnic and racial backgrounds historically underrepresented in medicine."

CUNY SOM's "multi-pronged approach" to DEI includes "best practices to attract, retain, support, and promote students, faculty, staff, and administrative leaders from social and racial/ethnic groups under-represented in medicine." The School also states that it "focuses on recruiting a talented pool of diverse students...with racial/ethnic backgrounds historically underrepresented in the medical profession – with a particular focus on Latinx and African-American students."

The Physician Assistant program at CUNY states that it is "committed to increasing the number of physician assistants of African-American, Latino, and other ethnic backgrounds, whose communities have historically been under-served."

One of the responsibilities of the school's Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion is to manage and lead "diversity training, education and professional development opportunities for faculty, students, and staff to foster a structurally competent learning environment."

The CSOM Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Policy states that "CSOM is committed to increasing representation of people of color, specifically Latinx and African-Americans, through the development and implementation of initiatives and professional development to reduce bias in the recruitment, hiring and promotions processes, and to support the promotion and tenure of faculty from these groups."

The CSOM Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Policy states that it would create "programs and strategies to establish an equitable and inclusive environment/climate; and curricula to advance equity and social justice."

CUNY SOM's "multi-pronged approach" to DEI includes "programs and strategies to establish an equitable and inclusive environment/climate; and curricula to advance equity and social justice." The school also states that it would "support the development of structurally and culturally competent curricula centered upon the goal of eliminating health inequities."

Dr. Gonzalo Torres, Medical professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Cellular & Biomedical Sciences at CUNY SOM received two awards totaling $2.5 million. The grants would "promote the advancement of underrepresented junior faculty members" interested in neuroscience and drug addiction research.

On November 30, 2022, CUNY News announced that the CUNY SOM "Pathways to Careers in Medicine and Research Program" received "increased funding due to Governor Kathy Hochul and the state’s commitment of more than $2.4 million to diversity programs managed by the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY), which is funded in part by the state Department of Health."

CUNY SOM Dean Renée Green recently had her letter to the editor featured in the Washington Post (Feb 6, 2024) which was titled "Discrimination embedded in medicine’s early framework endures today."

On June 30, 2023, the school signed on to the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) statement in response to the Supreme Court's decision regarding race-conscious admission policies, which stated the following: "The consortium of the 17 medical schools of New York State, is profoundly concerned that the United State Supreme Court decisions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina will diminish opportunities for talented students pursuing careers in medicine and science. These decisions reject a longstanding precedent that recognized the compelling interest of ensuring diversity in higher education and may undermine recent advances to address inequities in medical education and research."