TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting Inclusion, Diversity, Access, and Equity Through Enhanced Institutional Culture and Climate
AU - Piggott, Damani A.
AU - Cariaga-Lo, Liza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/8/20
Y1 - 2019/8/20
N2 - Advancing the health of all members of the global community remains core to the mission of the infectious diseases profession. Training, research, healthcare-delivery, and other infectious diseases-related institutions play a central role in meeting this goal. The promotion of inclusion, diversity, access, and equity (IDA&E) is critical to harnessing the full range of human creativity, innovation, and talent necessary to realizing the education, research, patient care, and service missions that constitute the principal objectives of such institutions. Strong and positive institutional cultures and climates are essential to achieving these IDA&E goals. We discuss opportunity gaps that exist in leveraging institutional culture and climate to optimize IDA&E. We further identify effective strategies to address these gaps and achieve excellence in education, research, patient care, and service in infectious diseases and the broader healthcare and biomedical space. We discuss the importance of both local and global context in conceptualizing IDA&E to best achieve these aims.
AB - Advancing the health of all members of the global community remains core to the mission of the infectious diseases profession. Training, research, healthcare-delivery, and other infectious diseases-related institutions play a central role in meeting this goal. The promotion of inclusion, diversity, access, and equity (IDA&E) is critical to harnessing the full range of human creativity, innovation, and talent necessary to realizing the education, research, patient care, and service missions that constitute the principal objectives of such institutions. Strong and positive institutional cultures and climates are essential to achieving these IDA&E goals. We discuss opportunity gaps that exist in leveraging institutional culture and climate to optimize IDA&E. We further identify effective strategies to address these gaps and achieve excellence in education, research, patient care, and service in infectious diseases and the broader healthcare and biomedical space. We discuss the importance of both local and global context in conceptualizing IDA&E to best achieve these aims.
KW - Inclusion
KW - access
KW - climate
KW - culture
KW - diversity
KW - equity
KW - institutions
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U2 - 10.1093/infdis/jiz186
DO - 10.1093/infdis/jiz186
M3 - Article
C2 - 31430385
AN - SCOPUS:85071560628
SN - 0022-1899
VL - 220
SP - S74-S81
JO - Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Journal of Infectious Diseases
M1 - jiz186
ER -