Community Engagement & Health Equity Programs

The Office of Community Engagement & Health Equity organizes a number of programs to help carry out Baylor College of Medicine's commitment to health equity, community engagement, diversity, and inclusivity. We welcome opportunities to collaborate with other departments, academic centers, schools, student organizations, other higher education institutions and community organizations to co-sponsor health equity and community engagement events relevant for students, trainees, staff, and faculty members at Baylor.

• Policies (Baylor login required)
  • Notice of Nondiscrimination
  • Academic Freedom Policy
  • Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
  • Disability Policy
  • Student Disability Policy
  • Supplier Diversity Program
  • Title IX and Gender Discrimination
  • Professional Associations and Groups

• Diversity Admissions Symposium
• Graduate Medical Education/Postdoc Pre-Look Diversity Event
• Health Professionals Day Out
• Houston Premedical Academy

• Awards Programs
  • Equity Trailblazer Awards
  • Progress Notes' Diversity Essay Contest
  • Women of Excellence Awards
  • AAMC – Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship and Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships
  • ACGME – Diversity and Inclusion Award
• Career Advancement Series
• Mentoring Circles
• AAMC Faculty Development Programs
  • Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
  • Minority Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
  • Mid-Career Minority Faculty Leadership Seminar
  • Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
• NIH – Diversity in Extramural Programs & William G. Coleman, Jr., Ph.D., Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award
• NRMN Culturally Aware Mentorship Training

• Affinity Groups
  • Baylor's COATS for Excellence and Equity (Community Outreach, Action, Training and Service)
  • Baylor’s GWIMS Chapter (Group on Women in Medicine and Science)
  • Baylor’s Outlist Directory
• Anti-Racism Challenge (Baylor login required)
• Compassionate Conversations to Address Social Injustice and Equity Series
• Diversity and Inclusion Week
• Diversity and Inclusion Observances
  • Black History Month
  • Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Multicultural Festival
  • Pride Month, LGBT History Month and LGBTQ+ Resources
  • Women's History Month
• Professional Associations and Student Groups

• Training workshops (available to departments, centers and schools upon request) include:
  • AAMC Holistic Review in Recruitment and Selection (for faculty, trainee, students)
  • AAMC Foundational Principles of Inclusion Excellence
  • Creating Inclusive Work and Learning Environments: Addressing Microaggressions
  • Introduction to Safe Zone: LGBTQ+ Inclusion Workshop
  • It Stops with Me Workshop (discusses microaggressions and bystander intervention skills)
  • Unconscious / Implicit Bias Training
  • Request a Training
• Social Determinants of Health, Medicine, and Ethics Journal Club (in collaboration with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy)
• Saturday Morning Science Fall
• Saturday Morning Science Spring
• SMS Summer Research Program
• SMS Summer Research Reimagined (Virtual) 2022 
• AAMC AHEAD Building a Systems Approach to Community Health and Health Equity