As mental health professionals, we have a responsibility to our patients, research partners, and community members: To treat all people with dignity and respect. 

This means we value the many factors that make a person who they are ​​– including race, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, and disability status, among other characteristics. It also means we recognize the ways these identities affect a person’s lived experience, and oftentimes, their well-being. Marginalized groups experience more illness, less access to care, and poorer health outcomes. As physicians and psychologists, we do not turn away from these realities; we strive to make them better.

We enact these same values within our department of faculty, trainees, and staff. At Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior, we aim to:

• Build a warm, welcoming culture that embraces differences
• Improve the fairness of our operations - in recruitment, promotion, evaluation, awards, communications, etc.
• Partner with Providence's various communities to advance mental health care and research that meets their needs
• Teach trainees how to practice clinical care and research that is mindful of complex human identities and social determinants of health, and model those values in their learning environment
• Support our faculty and staff in developing their skills in inclusive teaching, research, and clinical care