The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The School of Medicine announced that “all faculty, students, trainees, postdocs and fellows will be required to complete a virtual training session in unconscious bias. It will be followed by anti-racism and then bystander intervention training.”

The school said, "Training regarding unconscious bias was rolled out to all Johns Hopkins Health System, school of medicine and JHM leadership in February of last year. More than half of the 6,000 leaders — which include employees at the supervisor and manager level and above, faculty leaders and midlevel credentialed practitioners (physician assistants and nurse practitioners) — have been trained so far."

The school's "Diversity University" offers a variety of training and resources on such topics as "Structural Racism," "Unconscious Bias," and "Women of Color."

The school will be spearheading the “Development of an anti-oppression/antiracism curriculum,” which will include topics such as “History and Anti-Racism: Then and Now,” “Intersectionality and Dialogue”, and “Systemic Inequality.”

The school is requiring “One-hour live, virtual unconscious bias training” for “managers and above; hospital nurse leaders; credentialed providers (such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners); and for school of medicine faculty and trainees (including residents, fellows, medical and graduate students, and research postdocs), as well as those at a manager level or above.”

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity “has developed an infrastructure to identify and outline the operational needs to promote and address health equity across Johns Hopkins Health System. We have assembled a team with expertise in health equity research, data analysis, and implementation.”

The school's Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine has a "Program in Race, Racism and Health," which "draws on the immense expertise of our affiliates to engage in research, outreach and actions committed to the study of and action against racism in medicine. The Center recognizes the immense importance of critically examining the role of racism in the production of medical knowledge and the linkages between racist thought and legacies of oppression." The program hosted events including "Reckoning with Race & Racism in Academic Medicine" and "Black Beyond Data: Combating Racial Injustice Through The Digital Humanities: An Introduction."

The school offer several graduate programs which are focused on the advancement of diverse and underrepresented students, including the "Doctoral Diversity Program" which "seeks to develop scholars from low-income and diverse backgrounds to help them build the accomplishments, skills, network, and support necessary to achieve advanced careers in biomedical, medical, health-related, and STEM professions."

The Wilmer Eye Institute at the school of medicine offers a "Diversity Scholars Program" for students who are "underrepresented in medicine or from disadvantaged backgrounds..." The program is offered to "four students for the summer of 2023 (8-9 weeks duration) and will be based at the main Johns Hopkins Medical Campus in Baltimore, Maryland." The Institute defines underrepresented as "Black (African American or African), Latino/Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander."

The school has a diversity resource category dedicated to "minority students" which includes the "Otolaryngology Clerkship for Minority Medical Students" and the "Visiting Elective Program for Students Underrepresented in Pediatrics."

The school is offering “Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Resources,” such as “One-hour live, virtual unconscious bias training” and “Launch of Journeys in Healing Town Hall Series” (which will be “open to the entire Johns Hopkins Medicine community and will focus on structural racism).

The school also recommended “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi, “with accompanying discussion guide and videos: ‘The difference between being ‘not racist’ and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi’ and ‘Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist at UC Berkeley.’”

The Department of the History of Medicine hosted a conference on “Reckoning with Race and Racism in Academic Medicine,” to “confront the legacies of white supremacy and exclusion in American academic medicine and the central role that academic medicine has played and continues to play in the perpetuation of false biological concepts of race.”

The Department of Cell Biology links to “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources” from the School of Medicine.

In their letter, Biomedical Engineering’s leadership recommend several anti-racism resources, such as “The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the ‘White’ Problem in American Studies” and Ibram X. Kendi’s “An Antiracist Reading List.”

The school has an Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity.

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity offers “Online Education and Trainings” on “Unconscious Bias Awareness,” “Mitigating Unconscious Bias,” and “JHHC | Cultural Sensitivity.”

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity offers an “Unconscious Bias and Diversity Awareness Facilitator Train the Trainer Program,” which will “deliver unconscious bias and diversity awareness trainings to the colleagues at their entities.”

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity offers “Racial Discussion Resources,” including a “Guidelines for Facilitating Racial Dialogues Webinar” and “White Parents: Here's How To (and How Not To) Talk to Your Kids About Racism.”

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity offers resources including a "Guidelines for Facilitating Racial Dialogues Webinar" and a "Suggested Race Education Reading List."

The school's Department of the History of Medicine hosted an "ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY IN A WORLD OF DATA" conference. The conference included sessions such as "Health Justice & Digital Health Equity," "Race, Racism, and Data Practices in Public Health," and "Theory and Method of Digital Health Equity Studies."

"Listening sessions" were "held across Johns Hopkins, from June to August 2020," according to the school. The school said, "More than 1,200 managers and leaders were trained how to facilitate these open, candid conversations during which employees shared with colleagues their thoughts on race and equity issues."

The school hosted "Journeys in Healing," which was a "a town hall series on structural racism and anti-racism, began later that year. Running through 2021, it focused on topics such as racial justice, and the history of structural racism (also called institutional racism) and how it affects health care, law and government, employment, housing and policing."

The school said, "Over 250 residents, 50 fellows and faculty members, and members of the House Staff Diversity Council (which promotes diversity and inclusion among residents and throughout JHM) and the Johns Hopkins Clinical Fellows Council (which supports the needs of school of medicine fellows) have taken allyship training."

On September 28, 2020, the school's News webpage published an article titled, "Black Lives Matter in Medicine: What Must Change?" which states the following: "The massive protests that erupted across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death due to police brutality have served as a catalyst for recognizing and dismantling systemic racism on many fronts. Chief among them is the field of health care, where entrenched inequality has resulted in dramatically poorer health outcomes for people of color and roadblocks to advancement for underrepresented physicians."

On January 10, 2024, an X.com (formerly Twitter) user posted a reportedly internal email from Johns Hopkins' Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Sherita H. Golden to employees as part of the January 2024 "Monthly Diversity Digest." Dr. Golden states that "privilege is a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group" and goes on to list those who are members of that group, including "white people," "heterosexuals," "males," "Christians," and "English-speaking people."

On January 12, 2024, Fox News published an article titled "Johns Hopkins DEI office issues 'privilege' list in company newsletter, apologizes after backlash," which reported that an X.com user (formerly Twitter) discovered an internal email from Johns Hopkins' Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Sherita H. Golden to employees as part of the January 2024 "Monthly Diversity Digest." The email stated, "'In the United States, privilege is granted to people who have membership in one or more of these social identity groups: White people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, cisgender people, males, Christians, middle or owning class people, middle-aged people, and English-speaking people'." Fox News reported that after the X post went viral, "Golden sent out a new statement...retracting the newsletter and claimed it was not intended to offend anyone." The statement reads as follows: "The newsletter included a definition of the word ‘privilege’ which, upon reflection, I deeply regret. The intent of the newsletter is to inform and support an inclusive community at Hopkins, but the language of this definition clearly did not meet that goal. In fact, because it was overly simplistic and poorly worded, it had the opposite effect of being exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community. I retract and disavow the definition I shared, and I am sorry. I will work to ensure that future messages better reflect our organizational values."

The school has an “Office of Medical Student Diversity.”

The school tweeted, "Entrenched inequality has led to dramatically poorer health outcomes for people of color and roadblocks to advancement for underrepresented physicians. What steps must we take to end racism in health care? Our experts weigh in." In the same tweet, the school linked to a page titled "Black Lives Matter in Medicine: What Must Change?"

The school tweeted, "To demonstrate solidarity against racism, inequity and oppression, Johns Hopkins residents along with the larger Hopkins community joined the #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives today to honor George Floyd and the other victims who have been killed as a result of police brutality."

On its Twitter, the school spotlighted a group, which "bases their spontaneous theater pieces on #community stories shared by the audience. Their work has addressed #equity, #inclusion and health concerns among D.C.’s underserved residents."

The school posted on Facebook, "Johns Hopkins has about 4,000 medical and graduate students, residents, clinical fellows and postdoctoral research fellows. For each of them, COVID-19 and a renewed focus on racial injustice and disparities is creating an academic year for the history books, one with challenges galore but opportunities as well."

The school posted on Facebook, "People of color may have special concerns about the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine due to historic health inequities and other causes of vaccine hesitancy. A leading expert in diversity in medicine answers questions and provides information about COVID-19 vaccinations, their safety, and what Black, Hispanic/Latinx and Native American people should know."

The school posted on Facebook, "People of color are vulnerable to severe cases of COVID-19 due to long-standing health inequities and occupational risk."

The school posted on Facebook, "The protests that erupted across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death have served as a catalyst for recognizing and dismantling systemic racism. In health care, entrenched inequality has led to dramatically poorer health outcomes for people of color and roadblocks to advancement for underrepresented physicians."

The school posted on Facebook, "These last several months have posed a tremendous burden for many to bear, starting with the pandemic and more recently the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. These events have left us with heavy hearts and sadly reinforce the brutal truth that the African American community remains vulnerable to racism and senseless violence, even during a pandemic. "We hear the needs of the Johns Hopkins community to have an honest dialogue about these issues and develop steps to address these issues through our daily activities and relationships, scholarship and teaching, and health care delivery and leadership. We must acknowledge that these vulnerabilities to violence and health crises faced by black and brown communities are born out of continued racial disparities in education, employment, housing and criminal justice. "During this time of immense challenge, let us work together to be a light to facilitate education, healing, connection, support and service to each other and to our community. We stand here with you."

The school posted on its Instagram, "These last several months have posed a tremendous burden for many to bear, starting with the pandemic and more recently the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. These events have left us with heavy hearts and sadly reinforce the brutal truth that the African American community remains vulnerable to racism and senseless violence, even during a pandemic. "We hear the needs of the Johns Hopkins community to have an honest dialogue about these issues and develop steps to address these issues through our daily activities and relationships, scholarship and teaching, and health care delivery and leadership. We must acknowledge that these vulnerabilities to violence and health crises faced by black and brown communities are born out of continued racial disparities in education, employment, housing and criminal justice. "During this time of immense challenge, let us work together to be a light to facilitate education, healing, connection, support and service to each other and to our community. We stand here with you."

The school posted on Instagram, "To demonstrate solidarity against racism, inequity and oppression, Johns Hopkins residents along with the larger Hopkins community joined the #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives today to honor George Floyd and the other victims who have been killed as a result of police brutality. #HopkinsWC4BL #WCFBL"

The job description for the "Postdoctoral Fellowship, Critical Approaches to Science, Technology, and Medicine (CAST-M)" reads, "Candidates studying the intersection of science, technology, and/or medicine with questions of race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, and marginalization, as well as those critically engaging with science, medicine, technology, and engineering in the Global South and in communities subject to systemic discrimination are especially welcome."