Table 1 PTBi anti-racism goals, examples of anti-racism activities, and case study domains
PTBi anti-racism goals | Example anti-racism activities | Domain |
|---|---|---|
Continue to be constantly aware of the trauma our Black colleagues and community members face on a daily basis | • Hosted in-depth bi-monthly racial equity trainings • Facilitated leadership racial equity assessments | Trainings and competencies |
Ensuring our whole staff recognize the great power that each one of us hold in inspiring and creating change for good | • Provided support through racial affinity group training sessions | |
Developing more ways to support and hold space for our Black colleagues, community advisory board members and partners | • Created protocol for community research summaries and inclusion of community members as co-authors on academic publications | Organizational commitment |
Continue elevating strength, resilience, and an asset-based framework | • Launched community-designed public awareness campaign with strengths-based focus on Black and POC birth • Funded evaluation of anti-racism activities | |
Tightening our focus on Black-led and Black-focused birth research | • Recruited more Black postdoctoral fellows • Focused funding on Black community | |
Continue hiring more Black staff and faculty | • Recruited more Black postdoctoral fellows also supporting a faculty pipeline • Hired Black Associate Director | Practices |
Continue elevating and championing the voices and work of Black team members, researchers, providers, and advocates at UCSF and at-large | • Transitioned more community-based staff from contract to career positions • Allocated professional development funds for all staff | |
Continue calling out racist systems and educating non-Black researchers and academics on how they can begin to dismantle racism within their research programs and organizations | • Created a value statement about commitment to racial equity • Shared lessons learned about anti-racism practices with partners • Supported community-led research symposia and events | External partnerships and communications |
Continue developing our community workforce and capacity building programs and hiring from the communities we invest in whenever we can | • Contracted with primarily POC-led businesses • Hired former community-partner as Executive Director |