At Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior, we expect our learning environments to be safe, inclusive, and respectful spaces for all staff, faculty, and trainees. As a department comprised of mental health professionals, we also must challenge ourselves and our systems to change.

The department therefore adopts an agenda of advocacy, activism, and anti-racism. We acknowledge that as individuals, health care providers, and members of this community, we must critically evaluate the institutional structures of our workplace and academic department, even when it makes us uncomfortable. We will hold faculty accountable for addressing not only diversity and inclusion but structural racism as they teach and supervise our trainees to provide care for the patients they serve. And we will implement measurable policies and practices that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion and promote anti-racism within the department's education, research, and clinical care settings and the community at large.