In the Clinic: Integrate equity across the full scope of your healthcare practice
IHECJ creates cultural awareness training and programming to help healthcare providers build a culture of equity. We examine the political, economic, and cultural systems that create unique healthcare assets and challenges in order to develop internal experts and advocates for health equity within your organization.
High-quality Curricula
Tailored Programs
Immersive Training
Actionable Results
Our Approach
Equitable healthcare requires skilled and compassionate providers who operate from an equity mindset. Our workshops, lectures, and courses help providers see clinical encounters within a broader context and foster a culture of equity that reaches across all domains of the healthcare system.
Content Engagement
Community Engagement
Collective Engagement
IHECJ participants will learn how to:
- Facilitate discussions within their organizations about how and why unjust social conditions cause illness and disease for stigmatized populations;
- Identify and intervene in their own practice and with colleagues when bias leads to unequal care;
- Practice equity-oriented, person-centered care that helps individuals seeking clinical services feel valued and welcomed;
- Become an effective advocate for better policies.
In the Community: Research for Community Justice
IHECJ partners with and directly supports community justice-oriented organizations and entities. Our resources and research can have a direct impact on local residents by creating more equitable communities in areas like housing, health, transportation, and education.
We center community members鈥 lived experiences to co-create research strategies. We help provide direct access to data and help to translate it so communities can take action in the form of grant writing, neighborhood plans, or civic communications that are rooted in clear and compelling data.
Embracing Healthcare Futures
See how 九色鈥 Institute for Health Equity and Community Justice is creating a culture of equity in Memphis and beyond.
Clients & Partners
Meet the IHECJ Team
Robert R. Waller Professor of Population Health Chair, Health Equity Program
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Africana Studies
Associate Professor of Urban Studies
Assistant Professor of Health Equity
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact us: hotzk@rhodes.edu鈥