Congrats to our very own Dr Susana Morales who is leading Cornell's Diversity Center of Excellence.
As part of this, please see the below job description and circulate widely! Contact Dr Morales for more information: srm2001@med.cornell.edu
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We seek a Diversity Programs Coordinator to assist in administering this program. The job description is attached. Please circulate to your network!
Susana Morales MD
Diversity Center of Excellence
of the
Cornell Center for Health Equity
Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and the Cornell Center for Health Equity are delighted to announce a grant award of $2.7 million over four years to establish a Weill Cornell Medicine Diversity Center of Excellence under the direction of Principal Investigator Dr. Susana R. Morales and Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Monika Safford. This grant funding will come from the Centers of Excellence program of the Bureau of Health Professions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
“The WCM Medicine Diversity Center of Excellence award will allow us to expand our diversity and health equity efforts to better serve the diverse communities of New York City, the nation and the world. We are incredibly excited about this wonderful award,” said Dr. Morales, an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Medicine and Associate Attending at New York Presbyterian. “The Diversity Center of Excellence is a crucial piece of our Cornell Center for Health Equity strategic plan,” said Dr. Safford, the John J. Kuiper Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of General Medicine at Weill Cornell and New York Presbyterian and Director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, Weill Cornell campus.
The Cornell Center for Health Equity was launched in 2018. Through partnerships with communities, the Cornell Center for Health Equity will generate new evidence and design programs in research, education, and advocacy with the goal of achieving health equity for people locally, regionally and nationally. Targeted efforts of the Diversity Center of Excellence will include expanded pipeline programs for underrepresented minority (URM) premedical students, support and mentoring for URM medical students, trainees and faculty, expanded community based primary care and cultural competence education and research training in health equity. The Center of Excellence will collaborate with partners across Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, the hospital network, local colleges and universities, and community based organizations and government agencies. In addition to Drs. Morales and Safford, key faculty include Dr. Erica Phillips, Dr. Martin Shapiro, and faculty across Weill Cornell.
Although there have been improvements in the health status of the American people, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities in disease, death and disability persist. At a time when the nation’s population is becoming more diverse, its healthcare workforce has not kept pace, and underrepresented minority (URM) representation in medical education and the physician workforce do not reflect our diversity. Health workforce diversity has been linked to improved health care delivery, increased cultural competence and increased patient satisfaction. A significant increase in a diverse and culturally competent health professions workforce will contribute to effectively addressing the healthcare needs of URM populations.
Established in 1991, HRSA’s Centers of Excellence program award recipients serve as innovative resource and education centers to recruit, train, and retain URM students and faculty at health professions schools. Weill Cornell joins 18 other currently funded COE programs, including Tuskegee, Howard, UC Berkeley, UCSD, UCSF, Stanford, U Hawaii, Xavier, U of Puerto Rico, Michigan State, Rutgers, Oregon Health and Science, Geisinger, Meharry, UT San Antonio, Texas A and M, and Baylor. Programs work to improve information resources, clinical education, curricula, and cultural competence, and research as they relate to minority health and social determinants of health. The ultimate goal of the Centers of Excellence program is to strengthen our national capacity to produce a quality healthcare workforce whose diversity is representative of the U.S. population.