Diversity Activities | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Bloomberg School is a community committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion in order to achieve and sustain excellence.

We firmly believe that we can best promote excellence by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of students, faculty, and staff and by creating a climate of respect that is supportive of everyone’s success. This climate for excellence through diversity and inclusion is critical to attaining the best research, scholarship, teaching, health care, and other strategic goals of the Department, the School, and the University.

The University continues to be committed to the implementation of its equal opportunity policy, and significant University resources are devoted to assuring compliance with all laws prohibiting discrimination in employment and educational programs. Johns Hopkins University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or other legally protected characteristic in any student program, activity administered by the University, admission or employment.

These values are recognized and supported fully by the leadership of Johns Hopkins institutions at all levels and in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. BMB is committed to creating an environment rich in diversity and invested in maintaining an atmosphere that embraces the diverse cultures of our academic community.

We have an active Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which was formed in 2016, and was the first department diversity committee in the School of Public Health.

The Committee leads activities for the Department, as well as hosting larger events that bring in other departments. One of the signature activities is a monthly Diversity and Donuts series, where committee members host discussions on a range of topics mental health and burnout, health disparities and equity, and accessibility in STEM. The committee has also coordinated outreach activities with local schools.