University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine

The Physician Assistant Studies program strives to "Maintain an applicant pool consisting of at least 20% applicants from one or more of the following: Underrepresented Groups in Medicine (UIM) as defined by the AAMC."

In 2022, UTMB at Galveston released "Major Accomplishments Expected in the Next 2 Years" which included the plan to "Address underrepresentation of minorities in health professions with focused recruitment efforts to ultimately reflect the diversity of Texas’ population."

The Sealy Center on Aging hosts "Pre and Postdoctoral Training" for researchers "interested in studying the health of older minorities, particularly older Hispanics." Pre and postdoctoral fellows "collaborate with Center faculty who have more than $16 million in annual external research funds pertaining to minority health and aging in the areas of health disparities" among other topics.

The Legislative Appropriations Request for the Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 reveals that around a total of $5.6 Million to support "UTMB’s successes in attracting and retaining historically underrepresented minority students, students fluent in Spanish, and students who come from rural areas who go on to become primary care physicians serving Texas’ medically underserved communities." It is also used for "UTMB’s undergraduate and graduate educational programs that help to produce more primary care physicians for Texas, especially to serve rural, minority, and other medically underserved communities."

Up until 2023, the John Sealy School of Medicine's Diversity and Inclusion Policy stated that DEI was “a core part of the mission” and dedicated to promoting health equity. Following changes to state law, it appears that the School has removed the policy from online records.

In 2024, it was announced that the University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas Southern University are "partners in a national effort to increase diversity and inclusion of underserved communities in clinic trials." The clinical trial sites work to "bring the community to further equity and access for diverse populations."

The 2024 recruitment brochure states it is an "inclusive, collaborative community." The school also includes diversity as a core value in the brochure.

The School states that it has "one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation." It continues, "Such diversity breaks down barriers to communication and care, increases overall cultural competency of the workforce and fosters better caregiver-patient relationships in a diverse state and nation." UTMB stated that in the 2020-2021 academic year, "approximately 34 percent of all 3,940 students enrolled at UTMB were underrepresented minorities."

The school hosts the Diversity Council, which takes account for the DEI tasks within the school’s strategic plan.

In January 2024, the UTMB School of Public and Population Health received 5-year "full accreditation." Dr. M. Kristen Peek, senior vice president and dean of the School of Public and Population Health stated, “This is a momentous occasion,” and “We are extremely proud we can now say that UTMB is home to a school united, officially, with the vision of Health Equity For All.”