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Culture & Justice

Welcome to the Culture & Justice Quorum at University of California, San Diego

At UC San Diego’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, our mission is to serve our community with quality and just healthcare for everyone. We believe that our best is reflected in our clinical, educational, and research endeavors when our culture fosters and values diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice.

To that end, in September 2020, our Department established the Culture and Justice Quorum to ensure our excellence is inclusive and our department is a place where everyone can thrive. The Quorum is a foundational, departmental racial equity and justice committee designed to take an action-oriented approach to create and sustain department-level initiatives that foster a culture of equity and justice and encourage anti-racist work.

Values Statement

The official Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences Values Statement created by the Culture and Justice Quorum Ambassadors.

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UCSD Culture & Justice Quorum Inclusive Excellence Award

Inclusive Excellence Award

The Culture & Justice Quorum led by Vice Chair of Culture and Justice Audra Meadows, MD, MPH received the UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award

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Culture & Justice Spotlight

Webinar with Audra Meadows, MD, MPH
CDC • MMR vaccine is very effective at protecting people against measles, mumps, and rubella, and preventing the complications caused by these diseases | Cobb Institute

New Bundle of Joy: UC San Diego Health Delivers Highest Ranking for Obstetric, Infant Care | ACOG

Why Maternal Health Equity is Maternal Health Quality: A Tale of Priorities, Metrics, and Action | ACOG

'Safety bundles' may reduce pregnancy-related deaths, particularly among Black women | American Heart Association News

Community-Based Doulas — Can Clinicians Share Power to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes? | The New England Journal of Medicine

Recognizing Historical Injustices in Medicine and the Journal | The New England Journal of Medicine

Slavery and the Journal — Reckoning with History and Complicity | The New England Journal of Medicine

Discussing risk respectfully: How to talk about preeclampsia and low-dose aspirin with patients | CMQCC

Worsening US Maternal Death Rates | JAMA

Selecting Measures for a Maternal Equity Safety Bundle to Eliminate Racial Inequities Across Labor & Delivery Units in Massachusetts  | Obstetrics & Gynecology

The Role of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives in Promoting Maternal Health Equity: A Narrative Review | Obstetrics & Gynecology

The Culture and Justice Quorum at University of California, San Diego: A Departmental Approach to Dismantling Structural Racism | Academic Medicine

US Maternal Mortality is Unacceptably High, Unequal, and Getting Worse–What Can Be Done About It? | JAMA

Preconception and Perinatal Hospitalizations as Indicators of Risk for Severe Maternal Morbidity in Primiparas | AJOG MFM

Inclusive Excellence Awards | UC San Diego

A love letter to Black birthing people from Black birth workers, midwives, and physicians | OBG Management

Failure to progress: structural racism in women's healthcare | eClinical Medicine The Lancet Discovery Science