The Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI) has been established to provide leadership across the Faculty of Medicine in the areas of professionalism, learner mistreatment, equity, diversity, and inclusion, anti-racism, and anti-discrimination.
REDI’s Resource Hub
Explore our most-visited resources
REDI Best Practices
Groundbreaking tip sheets for implementing inclusive policies and practices across domains.
REDI Facilitation Guides
Slide decks to empower leaders in facilitating sessions designed to embed EDI principles into your unit’s core practices.
REDI Moments That Matter
Reflective guides that focus on why certain moments deserve particular attention because of their impact on working and learning environments.
Events
- National Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day Events in Lower Mainland (June 2026)
Celebrate Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day in the Lower Mainland area. - Frybread Power: The Significance of Indigenous Empowerment, Pride & Resilience for Health
Join an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring Dr. Evan Tlesla Adams and Joe Gallagher on Monday, September 21, 2026, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The session will take place as a full-day, in-person event on the UBC Vancouver campus and will also be live-streamed online.
News & Stories
- Advancing Indigenous Cultural Safety in Practice
Explore UBC CPD’s new self-paced online course, Alhgoh Together as One, Together as Community: Pathway to Indigenous Cultural Safety supports health professionals to meet new standards and build cultural safety and humility in everyday practice. - National Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day Events in Lower Mainland (June 2026)Celebrate Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day in the Lower Mainland area.
- Bringing an Indigenous perspective to internal medicine
A new residency training pathway at UBC is building capacity to support the diverse needs of Indigenous patients across British Columbia. A Faculty of Medicine Pathways Magazine Story. - Job Posting: Associate Dean, Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI)
We are looking for an Associate Dean, Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to lead our REDI team. Are YOU our next team leader? - Job Posting: Equity Education Specialist, Dialogue and Facilitation
We are looking for an Equity Education Specialist, Dialogue and Facilitation to join our REDI team. Are YOU our next team member? - Farewell Saleem Razack, Senior Faculty Advisor, REDI Office
We would like to congratulate Saleem Razack on his new role as Dean of Medicine at Dalhousie University. As he prepares to step into this position, Saleem will be moving on from his role as Senior Faculty Advisor in the Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) in June.
Recordings
- Engaging Values, Shifting Culture: Evidence-Based Approaches to Frame Messages that Inspire Enduring Change
Watch a recording for an It Starts With Us session with Mark Chenery, Co-Founder and Director of Common Cause Australia. Mark facilitated training on the Common Cause Values and Frames Fundamentals—an evidence-based approach designed for healthcare professionals, educators, leaders, and staff who want to communicate in ways grounded in shared human values. - We Are the Change We Seek: Leading Indigenous Health in British Columbia
Join us virtually on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, from 12:00–3:00 PM (PT), for an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring Indigenous Vice Presidents from regional health authorities, and the Provincial Health Services Authority. They will share how Indigenous leadership is transforming health systems across B.C.—advancing Cultural Safety, Humility, and Truth and Reconciliation. - UBC Medicine & The Australian National University: Walking the Path of Reconciliation Together
Watch a recording for an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring representatives from The Australian National University (ANU) and the UBC FoM. Learn about the historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June 2024 to collaborate on advancing Indigenous medical education, health and wellness research, and reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and its distributed programs, which include four university academic campuses, are located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of First Nations Peoples and communities around the province.
We respectfully acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver-Point Grey academic campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and UBC operations in Vancouver more generally are also on the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).
We respectfully acknowledge that the UBC Okanagan academic campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.
We respectfully acknowledge that the University of Northern BC Prince George campus is located on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh, who are part of the Dakelh (Carrier) First Nations.
We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territories the University of Victoria is located and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
Learn more about the Faculty of Medicine’s commitments to reconciliation.