Health Equity Subcommittee

The Diversity Committee’s Health Equity Subcommittee aims to identify areas of opportunity to promote health equity across all Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences sites.

Our group has:

• Created, distributed, and analyzed results of a survey assessing provider’s access and comfort level with using interpreter services
• Conducted a landscape assessment to understand patient advisory boards across UCSF in order to inform recommendations for recruiting and sustaining a diverse group of representatives
• Conducted a landscape assessment to consider how psychiatry clinics are screening for experiences of discrimination and police brutality in patients
   

Our current objectives include:

• Developing a best practices training for how to access and utilize interpreter services
• Present landscape assessment findings to leadership to highlight the importance of establishing a patient advisory board that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion principles across all aspects (e.g., recruiting diverse members, compensating participants, providing childcare/food)
   

Subcommittee members

	Jacob Izenberg, MD Co-chair		Jennifer Ly, PhD Co-chair
	Katy Ankenman, LCSW		Hilary Berman, LCSW
	Sara Chung, PhD		Emily Lee, MD
	Kate Margolis, PhD		Haley Peele, PhD
	Janice Tsoh, PhD