Dear SPH Faculty and Staff,

We are excited to invite you to our 2nd annual School of Public Health Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Summit on Thursday, May 23 from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. The main themes of this year’s summit include academic equity and student success, DEIJ-informed hiring, and institutional programming. We will have a keynote speaker, Andrea Taylor, senior diversity officer at Boston University, to speak on the future of DEIJ in higher education. The summit will take place in the Instructional Building Team Based Learning Center L405.

Please feel free to stay as long as you would like, including breakfast at 9:30 am and lunch at 12:30 pm. If you plan to attend, please click the registration link here.

The agenda for the event is below.

9:30 am – Breakfast

10:00 am – ​Keynote on the future of DEIJ: Andrea Taylor, senior diversity officer at Boston University

10:30 am – Spotlight on two DEIJ programs:
Syllabus Assessment Review – Yvette Cozier
JEDI Fellowship – Craig Andrade

11:00 am – The student experience

11:30 am ​​– Lightning presentations from units:
BEDAC – Sharon Coleman
​​​Biostatistics – Anita DeStefano
​​​Community Health Science – Catharine Wang
​​​Education – Ryan Wisniewski
Environmental Health – Leslie Boden
Epidemiology – AJ Rosellini
Global Health – Zana Wangari Kiragu
​​​Health Law, Policy, and Management – TBD
Research and Faculty Advancement, Practice, Administration and Finance – Leyla Dincer

12:30 pm ​​– Lunch  

1:00 pm – Panel: Discussing our experience with DEIJ-informed hiring
​​​Two 20-minute panels with Q&A

2:00 pm ​​– Adjourn

All the best,

Yvette Cozier, DSc
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
yvettec@bu.edu

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