Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources

UCGHI stands in solidarity against systemic racism, police brutality, and injustice – atrocities that tear down the health and well-being of Black communities. To be silent and to continue with business as usual is to be complicit. We as individuals and as an institution, stand with you. Black Lives Matter.
>>UCGHI full statement in response to the death of George Floyd
The University of California Global Health Institute advances the mission of the University of California to improve the lives of people in California and the world through our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Diversity is a defining feature of the University of California and we embrace it as a source of strength. Our differences — of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, socioeconomic status, abilities, experience and more — enhance our ability to achieve the university’s core missions of public service, teaching and research. We welcome faculty, staff and students from all backgrounds and want everyone at UC to feel respected and valued. >> Read the University of California statement on diversity.
News & Updates
UCGHI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Recommendations
These recommendations are a product of contributions from the UCGHI Black Lives Matter Task Force, UCGHI Leadership Team, UCGHI Board of Directors as well as the UCGHI community.
2020 UC Global Health Institute Black Lives Matter Task Force – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Survey Results
The primary objective of this survey was to gather metrics of diversity and inclusion within the UC Global Health Institute community, including both the Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment Center of Expertise (COE) and the Planetary Health COE.
Kobe Bryant And George Floyd: America’s Tragedy And Horror In Two Lives
UC Irvine professor of history and vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, and member of the UCGHI Black Lives Matter Task Force, Dougles Haynes shares what responses to the deaths of Kobe Bryant and George Floyd reveal about the state of race in the U.S.
"Learning from the Past and Working in the Present to Create an Antiracist Future for Academic Medicine"
Executive Vice President, Carrie Byington, MD, FAAP, FIDSA and colleagues identify individual, institutional, and community actions to create an antiracist future for academic medicine published in Academic Medicine Journal.
UCLA Research Center Develops Online Anti-Racism Hub Focusing on Asian Americans
A new website developed by the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge (CNK) to serve as a centralized platform to amplify on-the-ground activism and organizing by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
UC Riverside is the first UC campus to teach the Cahuilla language
Cahuilla, the language of Southern California Cahuilla Indian Nations, is offered by the Department of Comparative Literature & Languages at UC Riverside.
Statements from UC Leadership
- UC Office of the President: President Janet Napolitano's statement on protests, violence following George Floyd’s death (May 31)
- UC Berkeley: Chancellor’s statement on standing together (May 29, 2020)
- UC Davis: Campus leadership statement on George Floyd (May 28, 2020)
- UC Irvine: Chancellor’s statement (June 1, 2020)
- UCLA: Chancellor’s statement on the pain behind the protests (May 30, 2020)
- UC Merced: Campus leadership statement in solidarity (June 1, 2020)
- UC Riverside: Chancellor’s statement on George Floyd ( May 29, 2020)
- UC San Diego: Chancellor’s statement on George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery (May 29, 2020)
- UCSF: Chancellor’s statement on George Floyd (May 31, 2020)
- UC Santa Barbara: Chancellor’s statement on George Floyd (May 29, 2020)
- UC Santa Cruz: Chancellor’s Statement on George Floyd (May 29, 2020)
Anti-Racism Resources
EDUCATION – READ, WATCH, LISTEN
BOOKS
- This History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
- Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa DelpitTeaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Mindful of Race by Ruth King
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverley Daniel Tatum
- Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire by Gregory Cajete
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- me & white supremacy by Layla Saad
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- How To Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
>>Full list
ARTICLES
- Performative allyship isn’t what I need from you, white men from Tenure, She Wrote
- Here’s the Problem with Performative Allyship by Kristen Mae
- For minority students, the pipeline to an M.D. is leaky. Here’s how I managed to make it through by Paula Magee
- To Stop, Listen, and Act: How You Can Help Protesters and Black Lives Matter Groups by IndieWire Staff
- Guide to Allyship by Amélie Lamont
- Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma from Teaching Tolerance
- 5 Ways to Show Up for Racial Justice Today by Nastia Voynovskaya
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Why We Should All Be Angry by General Assembly
- Identity-Affirming Schools Need Race-Conscious Educators by Erica Buchanan-Rivera
- The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement by Shawn Ginwright
- When SEL is Used as Another Form of Policing by Cierra Kahler-Jones
- Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Toward SEL in Service of Educational Equity and Excellence by Robert Jagers, Deborah Rivas-Drake, and Brittney Williams
- 74 Interview: Researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings on Culturally Relevant Teaching, the Role of Teachers in Trump’s America & Lessons From Her Two Decades in Education Research
- How to Be an Antiracist Educator by Dena Simmons
- Why COVID-19 Is Our Equity Check by Dena Simmons
- Decolonizing our Minds and Actions by Waziyatawin and Michael Yellow Bird
- We’re In a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There are Glimmers of Hope by john a. Powell
- The Characteristics Of White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Why White Liberals Are So Unwilling to Recognize Their Own Racism by Isaac Chotiner
- Avoiding Racial Equity Detours by Paul Gorski
- Helping Students Discuss Race Openly by Julie Landsman
- How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators? by Charlie McGeehan
- How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
- Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
- Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
>>Full list
PODCASTS
- Adrienne Marie Brown
- Whites for Racial Equity
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
- Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
MOVIES / TV SHOWS / VIDEOS
- How to Be an Anti-Racist from MoveOn
- I am Not Your Negro
- Dear White People
- Making Talking about Race Our Work by Ken Hardy
- Weaponization of White Kindness by Lama Rod
- Black Parents Describe How to Deal with the Police
- James Corden Gets a Lesson in White Privilege: Three Things YOU Can Do to Help
- How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time by Baratunde Thurston
- Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice by Megan Ming Francis
- The Myth of Race: Debunked in 3 Minutes by Jenée Desmond-Harris and Estelle Caswell
- Deconstructing White Privilege by Robin Di’Angelo
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
- "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- When They See Us
UC Student Resources
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UCGHI Black Lives Matter Task Force
Campus Diversity Sites
- UC Berkeley
- UC Davis
- UC Irvine
- UC Los Angeles
- UC Merced
- UC Riverside
- UC San Diego
- UC San Francisco
- UC Santa Barbara
- UC Santa Cruz
Campus Events
Workshops, Trainings & Conferences
- White Privilege Conference
- Education for Racial Equity
- Untraining White Liberal Racism
- Stronghold
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
Anti-Racism Guides & Tool-Kits
- "Over the Work Ally: 9 Ways Solidarity Is An Act of Radical Self Love", adapted from J. Grant
- The Everyday Bullying of Microaggressions: Recognizing and Intervening by Yolanda Flores Niemann
- White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okum
- A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions by Kevin L. Nada
- Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice by Daryld Wing Sue et al
- Anti-Racism Resources for White People by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein
- Justice in June Resources
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- Anti-Racism Starter Kit
- Race Equity 101: A Series of Tools to Advance Racial Equity in the Workplace by Zea Malawa, Solaire Spellen, Jenna Gaarde
- Racial Equity Tools (Caucus/Affinity Groups and other material)
- Racism & Health Resources -- American Public Health Association
- Anti-Oppressive Facilitation Guide by AORTA
- NAACP Resources
- Human Impact Partners Resources
- Public Health Awakened and The Spirit of 1848 COVID-19 Resources
- UCB SPH's resources page
- The Spirit of 1848 A Network Linking Politics, Passion, & Public Health