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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
- Frybread Power: The Significance of Indigenous Empowerment, Pride & Resilience for Health
Sep 21, 9:00 am—4:00 pm Join an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring Dr. Evan Tlesla Adams and Joe Gallagher. The session will take place as a full-day, in-person event on the UBC Vancouver campus and will also be live-streamed online. - Building Networks for Lasting Impact: An Affinity Lunch for Indigenous & Black Staff, Faculty, & Clinical Faculty in the FoM (October 2026)
Oct 29, 12:00 pm—1:30 pm FoM Indigenous and Black staff, faculty and clinical faculty are invited to join us in person on UBC Vancouver Campus. This affinity lunch offers a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue, and develop collaborative networks with colleagues across the Faculty.
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
- 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. - 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.
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
- 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. - Research Voices from the Field with Faisal Khosa
In this edition, Faisal Khosa, Professor of Radiology and Chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Advisory Committee for Doctors of BC, reflects on his edited book “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Sisyphean Undertaking to an Achievable Reality” and shares his hope for a kinder, more inclusive future that we can build together, one gentle step at a time. - REDI Digest Guide: Moving from Harm to Healing (Part II)
In this edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar “Moving from Harm to Healing, Part II” (March 2026). It explores how restorative approaches can reshape responses to harm by emphasizing dignity, belonging, accountability, and repair rather than blame and punishment.
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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
- 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? - 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.
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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.