How an Anti-Racist Organizational Change Model Can Build Capacity to Support Historically Excluded Students

Abstract

Increasing diversity among the health workforce is not enough to address healthcare disparities. Advisors and administrators need to understand the role of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the development of anti-racist organizations. This chapter considers the history and impact that the systemic exclusion of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) has on the healthcare system, provides an overview of modern efforts to attempt to resolve this problem through pipeline programs, considers one institution's efforts to make anti-racist change, and discusses how administrators and advisors in pre-health programs and pipeline programs can apply an antiracist organizational change model to build their capacity to support historically excluded students.