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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mean for the Health Sciences, and Why Big Data Needs Them All
Description: Sometimes, because of the current political pushback, one can get the false impression that the academic attention that has recently been paid to increasing a university’s diversity, equity and inclusion profile is a new phenomenon—one that developed after the civil rights gains of minorities and women in the 1950s-70s. But the idea that people with different backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints would produce better work by engaging with each other was a core principle of the first modern research university—which was founded in Germany in 1810.
The health sciences are especially dependent on accurate data, and im...