We are proud to announce that 46 institutions of higher education received the 2020 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity publication in higher education. The Health Professions HEED Award is the only national honor recognizing U.S. medical, dental, pharmacy, osteopathic, nursing, veterinary, allied health, and other health schools and centers that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion across their campuses. The 46 honorees will be featured in the December 2020 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
“The Health Professions HEED Award process consists of a comprehensive and rigorous application that includes questions relating to the recruitment and retention of students and employees and best practices for both; continued leadership support for diversity; and other aspects of campus diversity and inclusion,” said Lenore Pearlstein, co-publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. “As we continue to see a record number of Health Professions HEED Award applicants each year, nearly every school tells us they use the application itself as a tool to create new programs and to benchmark their accomplishments across campus. The process allows them to reflect on their successes and also determine where more work needs to be done. We also continue to raise the standards in selecting Health Professions HEED institutions.”
Recipients of the 2020 Health Professions HEED Award include:
A.T. Still University
California State University, Los Angeles
Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine
Duke University School of Nursing
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM)
Florida State University College of Medicine
Frontier Nursing University
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota
TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine
Texas A&M University – College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University College of Dentistry
The Medical University of South Carolina
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Nursing
The Ohio State University College of Optometry
The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine – New York
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health
University of California, Riverside School of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Nursing
University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy
University of Cincinnati, College of Allied Health Sciences
University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine
University of Florida College of Dentistry
University of Louisville Health Sciences Center
University of Maryland School of Nursing
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester School of Nursing
University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy
University of the Incarnate Word Feik School of Pharmacy
University of Virginia School of Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN)
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
