Diversity
Biomedical Engineering
Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Department of Biomedical Engineering strives to create an inclusive and supportive environment for all members of its community to learn and work together. We acknowledge, welcome, and celebrate our differences, including those related to race, gender, gender identity, nationality, immigration status, sexual orientation, religion, disability status, and socioeconomic status. Motivated by the understanding that research and education benefit from the involvement of all people, we are committed to broadening participation in our departments and in our professions. We are actively engaged in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff from varied backgrounds to achieve this goal.
Our Commitment to DEI
Without diversity of perspective and expertise Biomedical Engineering would not exist. Our field depends on bringing together faculty from all areas of science, engineering, and clinical medicine to improve the lives of people facing medical hardship. It is our ability to share our diverse perspectives with one another and overcome differences in language, understanding, and experience that makes our work as biomedical engineers possible. Critical to our mission is having a community with a diversity of backgrounds and identities who know and care about the unique medical hardships that underrepresented groups face.
Guided by this mission, the Yale Biomedical Engineering Department is committed to creating an inclusive and supportive environment for all students, faculty and staff. Diversity (including but not limited to gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability status, citizenship, socioeconomic status, and religion) in our department is instrumental to the career development, scientific research, and global impact of our community. As such, Yale BME strives to cultivate a supportive and inclusive community that contributes to the scientific success and well-being of all members, and that provides equitable opportunities for students and scholars of all backgrounds.
Yale BME recently obtained funding from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Alliance for Relevant and Inclusive Sponsorship of Engineers (ARISE).” In collaboration with colleagues in BME at Brown, Columbia and Johns Hopkins, the goals of this effort are to apply discipline-relevant, inclusive, and intersectional sponsorship and systemic change in hiring practices to increase the visibility, networks, collaborations, and professional success of Black and/or African American, Latine and/or Hispanic American, Native American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Native Pacific Islander STEM graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty through a strong and effective inter institutional alliance.