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Not sure where to start with EDI in your unit? You’re not alone, and you don’t have to figure it out by yourself. REDI offers education, consultation, and tailored learning and resources designed to meet you where you are, whether you’re leading a team, teaching a class, or just looking to do your part.
We believe in collaboration. That means listening to your context, building real relationships, and helping you see the choices available to you as you work toward Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization and Indigeneity and Justice.
Events
Curious about what’s coming up? Browse affinity spaces, speaker series, symposiums, and other events designed to bring EDI to life.
Upcoming events sneak peek
- Recruiting and Supporting Indigenous Students into UBC’s Health Career Programs: Honouring the Journey, Inspiring the Future
Oct 20, 12:00 pm—2:00 pm Join an Indigenous Speakers Series session on the 25-year journey of the Indigenous MD Pathway, as well as recruiting and supporting Indigenous students to the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. - Éyameth’ – Weaving Health Together: Reclaiming Indigenous Ways of Wellness, Leadership & Belonging
Nov 17, 12:00 pm—3:00 pm Join a conversation with Qwenot – Angela Paul, Executive Director of the Éyameth’ Health Centre. Angela will reflect on what health care can become when Indigenous peoples are able to design it according to their own knowledge, values, responsibilities, and aspirations. - From Knowing to Doing: Reimagining Cultural Safety, Humility & Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism Education
Dec 15, 12:00 pm—1:30 pm Join a conversation with Mark Matthew, a member of the Simpcw First Nation and Director, Indigenous Health with Health Quality BC. Mark will reflect on the principles and purpose of A Refreshed Approach: Framework for Effective Cultural Safety and Humility and Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism Education and Training.
Recordings
Missed a session, or want to revisit one? Catch up on past talks at your own pace, or read a REDI Digest guide for a quick written recap.
Latest recordings sneak peek
- Frybread Power: The Significance of Indigenous Empowerment, Pride & Resilience for Health
Watch a recording for an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring Dr. Evan Tlesla Adams and Joe Gallagher. Learn about their journeys in storytelling, medicine, and health-system transformation, and how these experiences have shaped their vision for thriving Indigenous futures. - Moving from Harm to Healing (part II): A Practical and Relational Lens on Harm and Conflict
Join us virtually on Monday, March 30, 2026, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PT), for a session with Catherine Bargen, co-founder of Just Outcomes Canada and a recognized leader in restorative and relational conflict transformation. Moving beyond the “why” of restorative practice, this session provides both principles and examples to guide everyday situations. Participants will be introduced to frameworks for addressing conflict and harm, and for centring relationships by promoting belonging, accountability, and repair.
Resource Hub
Looking for tools you can use right away? Browse REDI’s full library of guides, tip sheets, and curated resources by type, theme, or topic.
Recently released resources sneak peek
- Research Voices from the Field with Katherine Collins, Kimberly Huyser and Michelle Johnson-Jennings
In this edition, Katherine Collins, Kimberly Huyser and Michelle Johnson-Jennings reflect on their article “Planning for your CANOE journey in community-engaged research with Indigenous communities” and share how the CANOE framework bridges the gap between the why of engaging Indigenous communities in research and the how of doing so responsibly. - REDI’s Reading list for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed annually on September 30th to honour Residential School Survivors and their families, and to remember those who did not make it. The date was chosen because it is the time of year in which children were taken from their homes. We invite you to listen with open ears to the stories of survivors and their families. - Explore our new “Explore” web page: A new way to browse the REDI website
Our new Explore web page is built to guide you through what the site has to offer. With 50+ recordings, 100+ resources, and 100+ stories and posts, you’re bound to find something that meets your EDI needs. You can now browse the REDI website and easily filter content by equity and inclusion themes or areas of practice across academic, clinical, and workplace domains.
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.
News & Stories
Want to stay in the loop? Catch up on REDI news, awareness days, community stories, job postings, and more.
Recent news and stories sneak peek
- A Sacred Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation: From Generation to Generation
Written by Derek Thompson in Kitsilano to celebrate the birth of his grandson, Miles Thompson, on the morning when the Thunderbirds brought him into the world. - REDI’s Reading list for the National Day for Truth and ReconciliationThe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed annually on September 30th to honour Residential School Survivors and their families, and to remember those who did not make it. The date was chosen because it is the time of year in which children were taken from their homes. We invite you to listen with open ears to the stories of survivors and their families.
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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.