Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Diversity & Inclusion

Empowering our trainees to be advocates and leaders of change.

Diversity & Inclusion

Empowering our trainees to be advocates and leaders of change.

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, along with The Warren Alpert Medical School and the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, remain committed to practices that advance social justice, structural competence, cultural humility, and anti-racism throughout our training programs, hospitals, and community. The fellowship program is dedicated to ensuring the cultivation of these skills and values in our trainees.

Throughout training, fellows will have opportunities and expectations to engage in clinical, didactic, research, teaching, and advocacy efforts to create a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable medical profession, health care system, and community. Within the fellowship program, we continue to grow and strengthen our formal social justice curriculum that spans both years and includes seminars focusing on cultural identity and humility, structural competence, and anti-racism followed by multi-disciplinary, case-based discussions with trainees and faculty together. In addition to sustaining a dedicated curriculum, program faculty and fellows are active in departmental and hospital diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts including committee work, caucusing, community engagement, faculty development, and quality improvement.

Diversity and Anti-Racism Committees at Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Anti-Racism Steering Committee

DPHB's Anti-Racism Steering Committee guides departmental leaders in developing and continuously improving anti-racist policies, practices, and climates across clinical care, research, and education.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee

The DEIB Committee assists in recruiting trainees and faculty from diverse backgrounds, as well as those interested in diversity-related research or clinical practice. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical psychology residents are represented on the committee.
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Diversity and Inclusion at Brown

Some of our Triple Board Program residents (who join the fellowship in their fourth and fifth years of their residency) have also been instrumental in working together with Brown University medical students and the youth-led group Gen Z in organizing the Code Black RI Health Equity For Black Lives March and creating the ongoing Code Black RI working group to create foundational, systems-level change across healthcare institutions in Rhode Island with the support of training program faculty.

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Brown University strongly supports and leads many diversity initiatives at all levels of the organization, including the President's office. For example, Brown's Office of Institutional Diversity provides leadership for the formulation and oversight of policies related to pluralism and equity, and initiates programs and practices that promote diversity, inclusion, and fair treatment of all members of the community. More specifically, Brown University directs multiple recruitment strategies toward the goal of achieving greater diversity among its faculty and students. Within the Medical School, the Dean of Biology and Medicine, Associate Dean for Diversity, and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior are partners in this enterprise.

Below are several specific initiatives of the Division of Biology and Medicine's Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OBEDI) 

Brown Council for Diversity in Medicine (BCDM)

The goals of the Council are to provide a forum to identify current diversity and inclusion activities within each clinical department; share these activities and ideas so that we may all learn from them; eliminate barriers to diversity and inclusion; educate and empower committee members to be able to evoke change within their departments; create a centralized knowledge base about the status of diversity and inclusion activities within each department; and create a unified vision of what diversity and inclusion looks like at Brown.

Committee on Diversity and Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Formerly the Race in Medicine Taskforce, this committee is made up of students, staff, and faculty and is  charged with implementing a coherent and inclusive curriculum at The Warren Alpert Medical School.

OBEDI Diversity and Inclusion Fellow

The OBEDI Fellowship is a one-year funded position. The fellow is a Brown medical student who works to develop skills  in leadership, collaboration, and program development through the creation of initiatives that address the mission of the OBEDI and the priority areas of Brown's Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP).

Petersen Educational Enhancement Fund

The Petersen Educational Enhancement Fund supports innovative service or research initiatives designed  to have a positive impact on individuals, families, and communities. The Fund encourages students to undertake  projects in the United States or abroad that not only will foster their own development and enrich their  educational experience but, just as importantly, will enable them to give back to the community at large.

Brown Advocates for Social Change and Equity (BASCE)

A leadership program for medical students, residents, and faculty to increase our internal capacity to address structural racism.

Brown Minority Housestaff Association (BMHA)

The Brown Minority Housestaff Association (BMHA) became a recognized housestaff organization in 2013. BMHA is advised through faculty, the GME Department and the Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OBEDI). The BMHA is an organization that strives to promote a diverse housestaff through community building, mentorship, networking, and advocacy. The strength of a diverse workforce more effectively meets the needs of the diverse population of patients we serve.

Brown's Support of Individuals with Disabilities

Students and trainees with disabilities are welcomed at Brown and provided with services through the Student and Employee Accessibility Services (SEAS), which ensures adequate accommodation for physical or mental disabilities. SEAS coordinates accommodations with departments throughout the University, provides updates on access conditions, and offers a wide array of assistive technologies.