Mona Fouad, M.D., MPH, Senior Associate Dean for the Heersink Office for Diversity and Inclusion, addresses the school in a letter observing the 2023 Black History Month.
The Heersink School of Medicine Office for Diversity and Inclusion (Heersink ODI) is excited to announce their upcoming virtual Diversity Grand Rounds, featuring Alan T. N. Tita, M.D., Ph.D, UAB Mary Heersink Endowed Chair of Global Health, Director of the[…]
The Lunar New Year, January 22, marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit. It is a time of new beginnings, particularly for many East Asian cultures. To recognize and observe this special time, The Heersink Office for Diversity[…]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an annual commemoration held on January 27th to remember the victims of the Holocaust and to raise awareness of the dangers of hatred, prejudice, and bigotry. It is an important day for the entire world[…]
The Heersink School of Medicine Office for Diversity and Inclusion hosted a commemoration event honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. on Friday, January 13, 2023, at The Spain Wallace Auditorium. The occasion embodied this year’s theme, “Together We Can Be THE[…]
The Heersink School of Medicine Office for Diversity and Inclusion hosted its annual Women in Medicine & Science Promotion Reception—celebrating women promoted at the end of 2022—at the Wallace Tumor Institute on Thursday, January 12, 2023.
Associate Vice President of UAB’s Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), Mona Fouad, M.D., answers questions about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Heersink School of Medicine and how her role will advance these values in the future.
Mona Fouad, M.D., senior associate dean of Diversity and Inclusion, joined UAB's Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as associate vice president on July 1. She will maintain her role as senior associate dean while also serving as the associate[…]
In the last feature of our 2022 Pride Month series, the Department of Medicine has collaborated with the Heersink Office for Diversity and Inclusion to shine a light on how the school is working to expand the perspectives of its[…]
In the United States, LGBTQ+ communities face a range of inequities when seeking healthcare services. So, why do these inequities exist? To answer that question and share the knowledge, the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center has collaborated on[…]