Speaker
Shelly Shaw
Associate Director of the Office of Community Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Shelly Shaw, M.P.H., is the associate director of the Office of Community Health in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. The vision of the office is to be a trusted partner, resource, and advocate in our department and in our community to advance equitable health outcomes for all people. Shaw has a broad background in public health from working as an infectious disease epidemiologist to implementing community-based interventions to keep kids healthy and active. Underlying her varied public health experience is a passion for prevention, community engagement, and equity. On any given day, you’ll find her working with a wide variety of colleagues — from listening to the wisdom of the Northeast Clinic’s Patient Family Advisory Council; to strategizing with our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee; to collaborating with colleagues in the School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health – all to develop a community health infrastructure through partnership, workforce development, education, research and quality improvement and advocacy.
Speaking in
Striving to Become an Antiracist Department: Strategies for Sustained Engagement and Transformation
In response to the global social justice movement of 2020, the members of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee in the UW–Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health set out to develop and execute an “antiracism 2.0” proposal for the department, which would build on the innovative strategies from their 2014 DEI Initiative. In this session, panelists will share strategies for building the capacity to develop an antiracist, multicultural department in a sustainable way.
The panelists will share the results of an internal climate assessment and a racial equity and inclusion assessment. They will discuss how they incorporated introspective opportunities for personal learning and growth; shared spaces for groups to learn together and build a culture of belonging in the department; and developed institutional strategies for change with a goal to build infrastructure, capacity, partnerships, and leadership to assure enduring change. The session hopes to inspire attendees to pursue change in their own departments and units across campus.