Race and Ethnicity
Mass General Brigham and the Employee Assistance Program are committed to serving diverse populations across the system. This includes a commitment to care and outreach to employees of all backgrounds, and a genuine effort to learn and listen. The EAP will always provide a safe space for employees to discuss concerns they may have, and will help to identify options for resolution. Below are some resources in areas such as race, racism and health disparities. Please contact the EAP at 866-724-4327 if you would like to confidentially discuss any issue.
EAP News Articles
Men of Color and Mental Health
TEDxMGH Video: Equity and Inclusion through Empathy
Daniel Burje Chonde, MD, PhD, Radiology resident and Executive Director of The Peoples’ heART, shares his journey that started with his parents protecting him from racism, through the trauma of feeling invalidated for speaking up, to settling into a “colorless” world until coming to Boston where he learned the crucial importance of empathy by doing equity work. His discovery led to this question: What if we had a new way to experience empathy? Click here for his story.
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- MGB “Know the Line” Program
Understanding respectful behavior and reporting concerns. - Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS)
- BWH – Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- MGH – Center for Diversity and Inclusion
- Mass General Brigham Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – A Tool-Kit on Productive Conversations on Race
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MGB Resources
Microaggressions
- EAP – Microaggressions – How Our Beliefs and Attitudes Can Harm
- APA – How to Confront Microaggressions
How to Address Race and Racism with Children
- The Clay Center, Betty Wang, MD – Talking to your Children about Racism toward the Asian Community
- Southern Poverty Law Center – Teaching Children Tolerance
- NWH – Tips and Tools for Parenting in the Face of Racial Oppression
Anti-Semitism
- B’nai B’rith International – Understanding Anti-Semitism
- United States Holocaust Museum – Understanding the Holocaust
Healthcare
- Stat – When the Patient is Racist, how should the Doctor Respond?
- AMJMed – Discriminatory and Sexually Inappropriate Remarks from Patients and their Challenge to Professionalism
