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Duke Palliative Care is dedicated to advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism (DEIAR).
We began this commitment with the Racial Equity + Justice Forum series (2020) which was a weekly series of educational sessions designed to raise awareness of race-based inequities and injustices and to promote critical thinking about the way we show up for our patients, their loved ones, and each other. The series focused on providing historical context and exploration of present-day implications of that history to equip staff with an understanding of how complex and ingrained racism, particularly Anti-Blackness, is in our society and how it manifests.
This evolved into creating a DEIAR leadership role within our team and Dr. Karen Jooste was appointed as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion lead for our division. Dr. Jooste works to gather DEIAR content surrounding different cultures, religions, holidays, etc. to be published in a monthly DEI flyer that is sent out to our team. She serves as a liaison with the DEIAR Committee in the Medicine Department, which has a wealth of resources to advance equity, diversity and inclusion. Our Palliative Care Division has created an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Team led by Dr Jooste to work on specific actions to implement our vision and our mission.
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