It Starts With Us is an inspiring and interactive series of presentations, round table discussions, and workshops that will engage faculty, staff, and students in dialogue and encourage positive action to support the creation and sustainment of inclusive, respectful, anti-racist learning and work environments.
We believe that an inclusive learning and work environment free of racism and discrimination will support those within our environment with drive, curiosity, and excellence to transform health for everyone – here at home and around the world.
Events
- Advancing Inclusive Research in Medicine: Anti-Racist and Decolonial Approaches
Join us on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 12:00 – 2:00 pm for a discussion on how medical and health researchers can cultivate more reciprocal, collaborative, and inclusive research practices that are culturally sensitive, anti-racist, and welcoming to historically, systemically, and persistently marginalized (HSPM) communities. - Inclusive Professionalism in Medicine
As our working and learning environments become more diverse, it’s worth questioning which elements of “professionalism” are essential for competent and effective education and care, and which perpetuate gatekeeping, exclusion, and various forms of oppression. Join our It Starts With Us session virtually on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 from 12:00–1:30 pm for a conversation with health professionals and educators examining the concept professionalism. - Moving from Harm to Healing in EDI, Medical Education, and Clinical Practice
Watch a recording for a conversation on reimagining conflict in medical education, clinical practice, leadership and EDI through restorative justice. This It Starts With Us session explores the possible limitations of retributive justice and the transformative potential of alternative conflict engagement practices.
It Starts With Us: 2023-2024
- Managing Fragility and Saviourism Reactions in EDI work
Watch the recording for a conversation on combating racism in healthcare. The panel features Derek Thompson, Maria Hubinette, Oakley Ramprashad, co-moderated by Saleem Razack and Harpreet Ahuja. - Gender-affirming Care in Action: Stories and Insights from the Frontline
Watch a recording for a conversation with a panel of healthcare professionals and individuals with transgender lived experiences. Gain valuable insights into the healthcare needs of transgender and gender-diverse individuals and expand your understanding of how to deliver compassionate and high-quality care to all your patients. - Beyond Representation: Celebrating Black Excellence in BC Healthcare
Watch the recording for a conversation with Black healthcare professionals from BC. In this session organized by Vancouver Coastal Health and REDI, panelists shared their experiences navigating the healthcare work environment and emphasize the importance of recognizing and promoting Black excellence in healthcare. - Postponed: Conflict Theatre: Spotlight on Rural Medicine
Conflict Theatre: Spotlight on Rural Medicine
It Starts With Us: 2022-2023
- It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust
Watch the recording of “It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust,” in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. - It Starts With Us: ‘Rock the Boat’
Join us on Tuesday, October 25th for It Starts With Us: Rock the Boat. Relevant to graduate students, staff, and faculty in supervisory relationships, this interactive event will illustrate the challenges that arise from the power dynamics inherent to supervisory relationships. The session will include watching videos of scenes of dramatic situations that can arise in supervisory relationships and discussing them in small groups. This session will prompt dialogue about how to foster healthy and respectful supervisory relationships and improve wellbeing for all while demonstrating a research-based theatre resource.