Mar 29 2022

Women in Health, Medicine, and Science: Challenges and Opportunities

Women's History Month

March 29, 2022

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Zoom

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Dr. Chiquita A. Collins, seen from the chest up, smiling toward the camera, on a purple background. Text in yellow and white describes the event.

Join us for our Women's History Month keynote lecture with Dr. Chiquita A. Collins:

In 2017, women matriculants (admitted and enrolled) in medical school reached gender parity, and in some cases have outnumbered their male counterparts. Despite these gains, women continue to face significant disparities in mid-career to senior-level leadership positions. For African-American women, Latinas, and Native American and/or indigenous women, the statistics are even worse. Women of color are woefully underrepresented in leadership.

Why are there still so few women in positions of power? Why are women of color absent from leadership ranks?

Dr. Collins will discuss the barriers that women encounter and specifically address the dimensions of gender and race and their impact on leadership. She will share recent data reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges, The State of Women in Academic Medicine 2018-2019: Exploring Pathways to Equity (2020). Accessible resources complementary to her talk will be offered as recommendations for institutions in their quest to advance women.

CART live captioning will be provided. Please send any questions or access requests to wlrc@uic.edu.

Co-sponsors: UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Sociology, Honors College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs.

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Contact

WLRC
wlrc@uic.edu

Date posted

Mar 14, 2022

Date updated

Mar 28, 2022

Speakers

Chiquita A. Collins, PhD, MA | Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer; Associate Professor/Research, Department of Population Health Sciences | UT Health San Antonio

Dr. Chiquita A. Collins is one of the most sought after keynote speakers on academic and health topics including: Women Leadership, Diversifying the Biomedical Workforce, Intersectionality, and Social Determinants of Health. Dr. Collins has been actively involved in national and regional organizations in various leadership roles to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has more than 25 years of experience in race relations and social epidemiology, research and practice; serves as chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Diversity and Inclusion (2021-2023), immediate past chair of Texas Medical Schools Diversity Consortium (2020-2021), Steering Committee Member, AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science Member (2013- 2018); appointed Board Member, National Diversity Council Healthcare and Time’s UP Healthcare. Dr. Collins earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology from the University of Michigan. She completed postdoctoral training in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholars Program at the University of California at Berkeley/UC San Francisco and received certification credentials from the AAMC Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate (HEDIC) program. She is also a fellow of the prestigious Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program at Drexel University, cohort 2019-2020. She joined UT Health San Antonio in September 2017 after serving as the associate dean of diversity and cultural competency and assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.