The Weill Cornell Medicine Diversity Center of Excellence, part of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, works to enhance diversity within the physician workforce as a strategy to combat health disparities. Our mission includes increasing representation through a five-pronged strategy that includes:
Expanding middle school, high school, and undergraduate pipeline programs
Enhancing support for medical students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups by creating an environment that facilitates top performance in culturally competent clinical care and community-partnered research
Enhancing support for residents and fellows to engage more URMs to stay in academics;
Expanding faculty development programs to support URM faculty
Generating knowledge through our innovative programs to share our insights with other academic centers directly and through peer-reviewed literature to benefit URM and disadvantaged community members through a novel patient education platform
The Diversity Center of Excellence was established in 2018 with a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health of Human Services.
