To increase our diversity, we aim to create a more inclusive environment with support for equitable education, and to recruit a diverse faculty and student body.
We partner with similar departments to increase recruitment of diverse faculty, trainees and staff, and ensure that DCMB follows DEI recommendations in all recruitment efforts.
Diversity is a key component of excellence, especially for solving the complex biomedical challenges that our field of computational medicine and bioinformatics faces. In alignment with the University of Michigan Medical School values, we believe that all people—regardless of background, race, religion, sexual/gender orientation, age or disability—deserve an equitable opportunity to pursue the education and career of their choice and to have a safe space in which to pursue it.
To increase our diversity, we aim to create a more inclusive environment that supports equitable education, and to recruit a diverse faculty and student body. In particular, DCMB DEI Committee developed and implements the following strategy:
- Work with university leadership to advocate for a more equitable and inclusive climate for the entire University of Michigan community
- Take steps to improve inclusiveness and equity in our department based on a planned internal climate survey.
- Develop relationships with partner institutions to enhance diverse student recruitment. HBCUs and other Minority serving institutions are encouraged to contact us.
- Apply for a Rackham Diversity Grant next funding round
- Host a symposium and a discussion panel on Bioinformatics in Health Disparities Research
- Partner with similar departments to increase recruitment of diverse faculty, trainees and staff, and ensure that DCMB follows DEI recommendations in all recruitment efforts
Interested in racial health disparities research, but not sure where to start?
Speaker Robert Winn, MD
Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Professor of Biostatistics
Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Program Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Professor of Human Genetics
Professor of Psychiatry
Research Professor, Michigan Neuroscience Institute
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Professor of Human Genetics
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
