NYU Langone’s Institute for Excellence in Health Equity is guided by three core pillars to help us accomplish our mission: research, medical education, and clinical care.

Research

Our institute strives to impact national policy on health equity by focusing on innovative and multi-centered peer-reviewed grants. The central goal of our research is to enhance knowledge that promotes evidence-based solutions that transform health equity and will shape national health policy and clinical practice. Through establishing a hub and spoke research model, creating a scientist pipeline program, improving the knowledge and skills of tenure-track faculty who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM), and developing mentored research projects, our institute provides excellence in health equity research.

Leadership: Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, EdD, and Marie A. Brault, PhD

Medical Education

Our medical education pillar advances undergraduate and graduate medical education training by ensuring that students and residents recognize and integrate issues related to health equity into their practice. Through mentorship, we facilitate successful academic careers for trainees and faculty who are URiM. The institute collaborates with the Office of Medical Education, Office of Diversity Affairs, Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and Office of Graduate Medical Education to advance medical education, faculty development, and mentorship in health equity research and to advance the career of faculty and trainees who are URiM.

Leadership: Cristina M. Gonzalez, MD, Renee L. Williams, MD, and Joseph E. Ravenell, MD

Clinical Care

In collaboration with department chairs and Medical Center Information Technology (MCIT), our institute is adapting NYU Langone’s delivery systems to improve health equity outcomes, including developing dashboards that collect and analyze data with the goal to reduce disparities. This goal will be achieved through tailoring quality and safety performance improvement program targets, establishing dashboard filters, creating ambulatory interventions, and enhancing electronic medical systems.

Leadership: Kathie-Ann Joseph, MD, MPH