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Health Sciences Diversity | Excellence in Health Professions Education

“Without the necessary rapport we cannot effectively and confidently serve patients. Within the School of Pharmacy, you learn to interact with diverse patient populations and how to solve their medication therapy problems.” – Jimmy Gill, School of Pharmacy, 2010

University of Pittsburgh's Schools of the Health Sciences value the richness diversity achieves.

The Office of Health Sciences Diversity exists to foster an inclusive environment for students, trainees, and faculty within the health professions schools and to increase the number of well-trained professionals who reflect different cultures, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, abilities, genders, religious affiliations and sexual orientations.

This site was designed to emphasize the awareness of diversity within the Schools of the Health Sciences and to serve as a resource for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions and cannot find the answers here, please contact us.

Events

The Global Health Student Association at UPitt is hosting a Global Health Film Series. more >

Pitt's Pre-medical Organization for Minority Students (POMS) will host their Annual Pre-Health Professions Conference this Friday and Saturday, November 20 and November 21, 2009 at the William Pitt Union more >

Announcements

Pitt Health Sciences Library System to Host Traveling Exhibit "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons," from Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 to Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, at Falk Library, 200 Scaife Hall, Oakland more >

The Clinical Research Scholars Program (CRSP) - a multidisciplinary career development program for junior faculty is currently accepting applications. Click here for more information.

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News

Former Secretary for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan speaks during Pitt’s Homecoming at the Health Sciences Diversity Minority Alumni Banquet more >

UPMC Center for Inclusion in Health Care Launches Dignity and Respect Month more >

Beatriz Luna, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and psychology in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD). more >

Stephen Thomas, PhD appointed associate dean of Diversity in the Graduate School of Public Health, and Angela Ford, PhD appointed executive director of Center for Minority Health more >

Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, in conjunction with the European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies, sponsors a two-day conference focused on world disability rights more >

 

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