Volume 17 - Winter 2004

FEATURED STORY

Dean’s Community Service Awards/Ebert Community Service Day

CSA Nomination List

MINORITY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Established in 1990, the DCP Minority Faculty Development Program seeks to: increase the number of minority faculty at Harvard Medical School; increase the number of minority physicians and scientists who undertake their post-graduate medical education at one of the 17 Harvard Medical School-affiliated institutions; establish model programs for the development of minority faculty with an emphasis on mentoring and leadership; and create programs designed to reach out to the pre-college and college populations with the goal of bringing outstanding, underrepresented
minority students into the pipeline.

Why Be of Service?

Request for Nominations 2004 Dean’s Community Service Award

Serving the Underserved: California Health Policy Forum

Collaboration Strategies to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities

Panel of Experts Discuss NIH Training and Funding Opportunities

The Harold Amos Academy Professorship at Harvard Medical School

GET THE FACTS about promotions ...

Nawal Nour, MD, MPH named MacArthur Fellow

Visiting Clerkship Experience

Reflections on my Experience as a Health Policy Summer Program Student

Boston Middle School Students Explore Biomedical Sciences
at Harvard Medical School

Project Success Together Again

Apology to Faculty Mentors at Children’s Hospital Boston

Opportunities to Mentor Students from the Boston Public Schools

Science Teachers Will Take a Summer TRIP to Harvard Medical School

COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The DCP Office of Community Outreach Programs, established in 1999, builds and supports partnerships among Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the community. These partnerships seek to improve the health of the community and, in particular, address issues of health and healthcare disparity based on racial or societal inequalities. The Office of Community Outreach Programs also focuses on the underrepresentation of minorities within the workforce, with an emphasis on careers in healthcare and the biomedical sciences. OCOP also works closely with the following entities within Harvard Medical School: Minority Faculty Development Program, Office of Enrichment Programs, Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs.

The Family Van Saving Smiles Program of Boston Receives Grant
from the Oral Health Foundation

Student Sight Savers Joins Family Van

Reflection in Action Student Winners

CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Awarded to Harvard Medical School in September 2002, and under the direction of the Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, the Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities (COE) seeks to enhance the academic performance of underrepresented minority (URM) students, strengthen efforts to support the cultural competency preparedness of faculty, residents, and students, and to expand current models for underrepresented faculty development and student/faculty research that focuses on issues of minority health and health disparities. The COE's six programmatic areas of focus are: Student Performance, Faculty Development, Information Resources and Cultural Competence, Faculty and Student Research, Student Training in Providing Health Care Services, and Pipeline Programs.

Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities
Faculty Fellowship Program

Council of Distinguished Scholars Mentoring Dinner

Research To Improve Care for Sickle Cell Disease

Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities Research
in Minority Health Seminar Series

NEWS FROM OUR COLLEAGUES
Harvard Medical School has more than 5,000 full-time faculty working in eight academic departments based at the School's Boston quadrangle or in one of 47 academic departments at 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes.

Reaffirmation of the University’s Policy Concerning Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity
by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

David Brian Hackney, MD, appointed Chief of Neuroradiology at BIDMC

Underrepresented in Medicine Definition

Ruth Simmons, PhD, President, Brown University visits HMS

Great Place to Work® survey

Black Health Organization Hosts Nurses Roundtable

Perspectives on Mentoring – Enlightened Sources

Call for Nominations 2003-2004 Mentoring Awards

We welcome, and actively seek, articles from our colleagues at any of our affiliated institutions. We are delighted to showcase here a number of very interesting initiatives that have taken place at some of our affiliated institutions and across several Harvard schools in recent months.

EVENTS
The Minority Faculty Development Program's Diversity and Community Outreach Calendar posts events that cater to the minority faculty, staff, students, and community. It also serves as a tool to demonstrate the ways in which programs are seeking to facilitate change and growth.

If you would like to post events on the on-line Diversity and Community Outreach Calendar, please visit www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/calendar

Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities™—
Wednesday, February 4, 2004, 12:30-5:00pm

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