Braiding Accountability: A Ten-Year Review of the TRC’s Healthcare Calls to Action
Ten years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its Calls to Action, what has been achieved in healthcare? Explore this landmark report to learn more.
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.
New Year, New You: REDI’s New Year Book List
Explore a compilation of books that have deeply inspired the REDI team in their work. Immersing yourself in the stories, lived experiences, and perspectives of individuals from various historically marginalized groups can foster empathy, understanding, and even aid in mitigating bias in your teaching and clinical practice.
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.
REDI Digest Guides: Inclusive Professionalism in Practice
In this first edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar Inclusive Professionalism in Medicine (March 2025). It explores how professionalism is evolving from traditional norms toward more inclusive and relational approaches, highlighting key themes, including the impact of professional norms on historically, systemically, and persistently marginalized groups.
REDI Moments That Matter: Faculty & Staff Recruitment
In this first guide, we focus on Faculty and Staff Recruitment as a key moment that signals who is welcome and valued within a unit. The guide invites reflection on how recruitment practices shape culture, belonging, and retention long before someone joins a team, and how processes can either affirm or undermine stated commitments to equity and inclusion.
Research Voices from the Field with Cheryl Holmes
In this edition, Cheryl Holmes, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education and Clinical Professor of Critical Care in the Department of Medicine reflects on why she co-authored “Core Competencies for Students Entering Medical School: Reaching Pan-Canadian Consensus for Inclusive and Accessible Medical Education” — a must-read for leaders and educators seeking to embed disability justice into medical education.
Accessibility & Disability Inclusion Resources
Explore ways to better support and accommodate people with invisible and visible disabilities across our learning, research and clinical environments with this curated collection of resources. The collection features a TED Talk with Jennifer Brea about what it means to live with an invisible disability.
The ABCs of Compassionate Support
Explore trauma-informed strategies for supporting a learner or colleague, without overstepping boundaries or assuming their full story.
Research Voices from the Field with Faizal Haji
Faizal Haji, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the BC Children’s Hospital, Scholar at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES), and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, reflects on why he co-authored “Defining a Framework and Evaluation Metrics for Sustainable Global Surgical Partnerships” with colleagues in the Branch for Global Surgical Care — a piece relevant to anyone interested in decolonization and global health equity.