The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

One of the goals of the Brown Minority Housestaff Association is to "improve diversity at our member institutions by actively recruiting outstanding underrepresented minority students into our residency programs." The BMHA is a "leading inter-departmental force on campus that now spans across all departments to help address disparity, health equity, racism, and diversity in medicine."

The school’s Committee on Anti-Racism and Equity (CARE) established Discussing Anti-Racism and Equity (DARE) as an “educational intervention aimed at emergency medicine frontline providers.” The curriculum includes conferences on racism and equity, simulations, reading groups, and film screenings integrated into the existing education at Brown in order to “encourage anti-racist attitudes and behaviors” and to provide “equitable and actively anti-racist care” by assessing implicit bias and structural racism.

The school offers an online course to healthcare professionals titled “Centering Racism” on systemic racism, oppression, and systems of privilege and inequities in healthcare. As part of the course, they offer additional resources of numerous books and articles featuring “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi.

In July 2022, through the school's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Warren Alpert Medical School announced "revisions to its Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society, selection/review committee membership and nomination and selection criteria in order to improve the holistic review of eligible students." Part of the new criteria states that "All members of the selection committee have been asked to complete online implicit bias training from Brown University."

The school's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion issued an update on its "Anti-Racism Training Opportunities" and stated that "Since 2019, the senior-level leadership and extended leadership groups, which includes assistant/associate deans and center directors, have been required to participate in ongoing anti-racism trainings including unconscious bias training. There is a continued commitment by the Medical School to fund ongoing leadership and faculty anti-racism training."

Brown Advocates for Social Change and Equity "builds a community of medical students, residents, and faculty who have been trained to facilitate cross-cultural activities and dialogues on race, unconscious bias, and health equity within our peer community and respective healthcare systems."

The school has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Dashboard to track the progress of initiatives addressing systemic racism, restorative justice work, efforts to increase student admissions for underrepresented groups, as well as curriculum changes towards anti-racism education.

The entire medical curriculum at the school was overhauled to integrate anti-racism curriculum material throughout all courses as well as recruiting a more diverse faculty to teach these courses. With this, “all incoming first-year medical students were required to read Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts and attend mandatory small group discussions on the book led by trained faculty. Rising second-year students read How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, again with mandatory small group discussions and preceding faculty preparation. Additionally, the Race and Medicine section in the Health Systems Science course was moved forward with an added focus on racism and oppressive policies.”

The Mentoring and Educating Diverse Students and Trainees to Excel as Physicians (MEDSTEP) program within the Division of Biology and Medicine "provides structured mentorship across The Warren Alpert Medical School and the affiliated hospitals for individuals who self-identify as underrepresented in medicine."

The Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OBEDI) Fellows Program within the Division of Biology and Medicine works with a third or fourth year medical student who is "supported by a year-long stipend." Programs such as the "Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM) tutoring program for first-year, low-income, students of color" are coordinated by the chosen fellow.

The Diversity Visiting Student Scholarship program within the Division of Biology and Medicine is "an opportunity for qualified underrepresented (URM) students to participate in clinical electives at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University."

The Discussing Anti-Racism and Equity organization hosted a book club featuring “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X Kendi.

The school’s Department of Emergency Medicine has a compilation of Anti-Racism Skills Links and Resources posted including “Handling Microaggressions,” “How Cops Get Away With Murder,” “Defund Police Toolkit,” “A Guide to White Privilege,” and “Becoming an Antiracist.”

On October 30, 2023, the Medical School reported that it hosted the "Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations: Beyond Broadening Participation" conference which featured a "trio of faculty-led panels [who] discussed advancing anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion for faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students, which also allowed questions and input from audience members."

The Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the Medical School "promotes social responsibility, active engagement, and the well-being of our communities in the pursuit of health equity."

The school has a strategic plan for diversity and inclusivity called Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion.

On June 4, 2020, the school released a statement on their commitment to anti-racism following the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor in which they “recognize the systems and structures that perpetuate racism and oppression and acknowledge the need for change.”

The Warren Alpert Medical School took part in launching the Brown Innovation and Research Collaborative for Health, where “the Research Advisory Council will undertake initiatives in Community Engagement and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”