PRIDE Response Team
The PRIDE Response Team is committed to upholding the PRIDE values set forth by UCSF leadership. The PRIDE Response Team will actively combat instances of bias and exclusion across the School of Nursing. In accordance with the School of Nursing's Policy on Learning Environment and Curricular Inclusivity, the purpose of the P.R.I.D.E. Response Team is as follows:
- Address reported cases of bias, microaggressions and other non-inclusive behaviors that occur across the stakeholder experience (learners, faculty and staff), particularly the academic learning environment (classroom, clinical spaces and institutional-related activities), which do not meet the criteria of a formal policy violation based on protected categories, student conduct or faculty conduct.
- Utilize experts in content and facilitation to repair harm between involved parties, when requested.
- Create and hold space for involved parties to dialogue, express perspectives, communicate needs for safety and respect, and learn skills to support inclusive environments using foundations of restorative justice, when requested.
- Integrate tracking systems to collect data of reported cases consistently across all schools and academic programs, improving our ability to capture climate issues and improvements across the institution.
Explore the PRIDE Response Team committee member description for additional details. Questions about the PRIDE Response Team should be directed to [email protected]. Please include "PRIDE RT" in the subject line.
Health Equity Pathways Program (HEPP)
Mission and Vision: HEPP, born out of a vision and persistent commitment to health equity and social justice advocacy, was established in 2023. The program aims to develop and support a pathway for California State University students to continue their graduate education at UCSF in a doctoral program. Graduates are poised to grow the UCSF community and beyond as scholars committed to health equity and social justice advocacy. HEPP will cultivate and support a doctorally-prepared, diverse nursing workforce who can better anticipate, understand and address health disparities and inequities. The program will provide exposure to opportunities, resources and people to support student success.
A Message from HEPP's Director:
As the inaugural director of HEPP, I am proud to partner with colleagues in the School of Nursing's Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach Office to lead this critical initiative. I bring more than 30 years of nursing experience as a first-generation college graduate who grew up in rural South Carolina. I am a servant leader and social justice advocate. My internationally recognized program of research focuses on improving outcomes in sickle cell disease. I understand that much of the inequity in care for individuals with sickle cell disease is due to social and structural determinants of health, implicit and explicit bias, lack of knowledge, myths about Black people and racism. I was selected as the 2020 National Sickle Cell Advocate of the Year and, more recently, received the 2023 Pat Corley, RN, Sickle Cell Ambassador Award and the Sickle Cell Medical Researcher Award.
Informally, I have always been committed to advocating with and for underrepresented people. I began my formal academic and advocacy role in 2016 as the Inclusive Excellence Advocate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Today, I am professor, the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair and the senior health equity scholar at the UCSF School of Nursing. I look forward to this exciting journey and many successful HEPP Scholars.
Coretta Jenerette, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Senior Health Equity Scholar
Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair
UCSF School of Nursing
Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach Office x HEPP: Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires ongoing societal efforts to:
- Address historical and contemporary injustices;
- Overcome economic, social and other obstacles to health and health care; and
- Eliminate preventable health disparities.
HEPP Requirements:
To be eligible for HEPP, students must:
- Indicate belonging to a historically marginalized, underrepresented or economically disadvantaged demographic.
- Be a graduate of a California State University nursing program.
- Be admitted to a UCSF School of Nursing doctoral nursing program.
- Demonstrate ongoing commitment to health equity and social justice advocacy.
- Maintain satisfactory academic progress while enrolled in the UCSF School of Nursing.
- Complete all HEPP requirements.
Contact Us:
Questions about HEPP should be directed to [email protected]. Please include "HEPP" in the subject line.