Former Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare
What You'll Learn
- Recognize the foundational connection between biases and health care management and policy.
- Challenge your awareness, values, and actions on implicit and unconscious bias.
4 Modules
12 Hours
3 hrs per module (approx.)
Rating
About Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare
Bias in healthcare delivery leads to worse patient care and patient outcomes. Advancing Health Equity: A Guide for Reducing Bias in Healthcare provides you an interactive bias training that teaches skills applicable to addressing enhanced public health guidelines and approaching the work of health equity.
The racial and ethnic makeup of the United States is constantly shifting, and more specifically, becoming more diverse. Such changes require a more health equity-focused workforce and health equity-minded leadership. Bias training plays an essential role in leadership development, and it’s become imperative for all healthcare workers to recognize the foundational connection between biases and health care management and policy.
This course is designed to challenge your awareness, values, and actions on implicit and unconscious bias, and is intended to guide individuals hoping to contribute to this work in a healthcare context. The following core concepts form the basis of instruction and together offer an introductory perspective on this pressing topic: 1.) Community Orientation; 2.) Organizational Awareness; 3.) Professionalism; 4.) Accountability, Change Leadership, and Strategic Orientation.
An interactive 360-video experience allows you to engage in healthcare situations that center bias on multiple levels of our healthcare delivery systems. You will be prompted to consider multiple perspectives and roles, and use empathy to analyze bias and take action.
Skills You'll Gain
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion Initiatives
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion Policies
- Healthcare Strategy
- Health Equity
- Leadership Development
- Public Health
What You'll Earn
- Certificate of Completion:
- Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
Welcome Message
Welcome to Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare. This interactive course equips healthcare professionals and leaders with practical skills to recognize and address implicit and unconscious bias in healthcare settings. Through community- and organization-centered frameworks, immersive scenarios, and reflective case studies, learners build awareness, empathy, and accountability to support equitable care and health equity–focused leadership.
This abbreviated syllabus description was created with the help of AI tools and reviewed by staff. The full syllabus is available to those who enroll in the course.
Course Schedule
Module 1: Community Orientation
- Video: Welcome to the Course
- Video: What is the Collaborative?
- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Reading: Pre-Course Survey
- Reading: Acknowledgements
- Video: Community Orientation and Learning Objectives
- Video: What's at Stake?
- Reading: Articles: Greenwald and McCartney, Et al.
- Video: Types of Biases
- Video: Biases are Rooted in Evidence
- Video: Health Disparities
- Video: Health Equity is Personal & Defining Health Equity
- Reading: Implicit Association Test (IAT)
- Reading: Case Study Content Warning
- Video: Case Study Introduction: Baby Holloway
- Reading: Case Study: Baby Holloway
- Discussion Prompt: Baby Holloway
- Video: Reflective Response: Baby Holloway Case
- Graded: Module 1 Quiz
Module 2: Organizational Awareness
- Video: Organizational Awareness and Learning Objectives
- Video: What's at Stake? Community Orientation Review
- Reading: Articles: Carter-Pokras & Marmot
- Video: Power and Leadership
- Reading: Article: Iton
- Video: Moving Towards Individuality-Values
- Reading: Rokeach Value Survey (RVS)
- Discussion Prompt: Rokeach Value Survey Discussion
- Reading: Article: BudzÍnski
- Video: Case Study Introduction: Language Barrier
- Reading: Case Study: Language Barrier
- Discussion Prompt: Case Study: Language Barrier
- Video: Reflective Response: Language Barrier Case
- Graded: Module 2 Quiz
Module 3: Professionalism
- Video: Professionalism and Learning Objectives
- Video: What's at Stake: Organizational Awareness Review
- Video: Harmful Bias
- Reading: Articles: Catalyst & Dovidio
- Video: Identifying Microaggressions
- Reading: Article: Sue
- Reading: CAREN Act
- Video: Conflict Management Style Survey
- Reading: Conflict Styles Assessment (CSA)
- Video: Reflective Conclusion: Conflict Management Survey
- Video: Case Study: Gender Name Calling
- Reading: Case Study: Gender Name Calling
- App Item: Interactive Experience: Gender Name Calling
- Reading: Post-Experience Survey Opportunity
- Discussion Prompt: Gender Name Calling
- Video: Reflective Response: Gender Name Calling Case
- Graded: Module 3 Quiz
Module 4: Special Topics: Accountability, Change Leadership, and Strategic Orientation
- Video: Accountability, Change Leadership and Strategic Orientation
- Video: Building a Culture of Accountability
- Video: Seeing Accountability in Organizations
- Reading: Article: Petkovic
- Video: Change Leadership: Part 1
- Video: Change Leadership: Part 2
- Reading: Article: Lencioni & FitzGerald
- Reading: Article: FitzGerald, C., Hurst, S
- Video: Strategic Orientation
- Video: From Community Orientation to Strategic Orientation and Emotional Intelligence
- Reading: Article: Freshman & Rubino
- Video: Emotional Intelligence Assessment
- Reading: Emotional Intelligence Test (EIT)
- Video: Case Study Introduction: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias
- Reading: Case Study: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias
- Discussion Prompt: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias
- Video: Reflective Response Video: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias
- Video: Final Thoughts
- Reading: Exit Survey
- Graded: Module 4 Quiz
Grading Policy
To pass the course, learners must earn an overall grade of 80% or higher. The final grade is cumulative and based on four module quizzes, each worth 25% of your final grade.
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Intermediate Level
Some related experience required
