Office of Diversity  

Mission: To initiate and support activities that increase diversity and promote cultural competency among members of the HSPH community.

Recruitment: to enhance student, research associate, postdoctoral fellow, faculty and staff recruitment by working with the respective HSPH offices.

• Assist with recruitment trips planned by Admissions Office; create the HSPH Faculty Ambassadors Program; develop department-by-department goals and approaches to recruitment; provide secondary/support mentoring for minority students, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members.

Cultural Competence: to promote cultural competency within the HSPH community;

• Host or co-sponsor cross-cultural training activities and events that raise awareness and take advantage of the diversity of students, staff, and faculty; including the annual Yerby Visiting Lectureship; create annual diversity awards to recognize a member of the Harvard community and an external person; promote and support HSPH participation in diversity activities and events; review Ombudspersons statistics and other episodes of intolerance to identify areas for proactive training; determine HSPH benchmarks of cultural competence and report upon them, annually.

Representation: to participate in activities that represent the HSPH's diversity agenda within HSPH, Harvard University, and nationally.

• Participate in the HSPH Faculty Diversity Committee and CCWF and provide staffing for the Faculty Diversity Committee; manage and nurture the Diversity Network of minority scholars; present HSPH's activities within Harvard and at national conferences; present the OD's mission and activities to the department chairs, faculty, administrators and students, annually.

Monitor: to report the state of diversity at HSPH annually.

• Assist with the University reporting requirements; assist with the University's FD&D faculty survey; create a departmental level report of diversity benchmarks to present to the respective department chairs as an annual planning resource; assist with HSPH reporting requests/requirements from the University and other entities.