Nominations are Open for the Inaugural Champion in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award: An Award of Excellence

Dr. Eve Higginbotham, Vice Dean for the Office of Inclusion and Diversity, along with UPHS Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Dwaine Duckett, are pleased to announce the inception of the Champion in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award: An Award of Excellence and request nominations for the inaugural recipient.

The award is open to business units, departments, divisions, institutional groups and organizations throughout Penn Medicine. Nominations are due by November 30, 2020.

  Nominated entities should meet the following criteria, documenting progress over the past three years or less:

• Has broadly demonstrated deep levels of commitment to inclusion, diversity and equity in ways that are grounded in principles of collaboration and shared leadership
• Uses formal assessment processes and data to co-develop programs and interventions that are responsive to the needs of inclusion, diversity and equity
• Evaluates the processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of programs and initiatives in ways that are meaningful to a variety of internal and external institutional stakeholders
• Incentivizes inclusion, diversity and equity activities and scholarship among faculty, trainees, and students as evidenced by leadership commitment and institutional policies

Nominations must include a letter of nomination, including data and narratives supporting the candidacy of the unit, of no more than 1500 words, as well as at least 2 letters of support. Nominations are due to oid@mail.med.upenn.edu by November 30, 2020. The inaugural recipient will be announced during the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Equity Symposium in January 2021.