Centering DEI in our Improvement Work to Advance Health Equity: Moving Toward Justice

January 10th, 2023

Baraka Floyd

Dr. Baraka D. Floyd is a pediatrician and Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. She is also Medical Director of the Peninsula Family Advocacy Program: A Medical Legal Partnership (FAP). Dr. Floyd co-directs the Health Equity Advanced through Learning Initiative (HEAL), a multimodal educational initiative that includes Health Equity Rounds (HER), case based sessions providing opportunities to apply individual tools, process improvement, and quality improvement tools to address inequities in care. The HEAL team includes HEAL co-director Dr. Allison Guerin, DEIJ manager Emmett Griffith, and HER faculty leads Drs. Rebecca Kameny and Amit Singh. The HEAL team is also building out Presence 5 for Racial Justice Pediatrics, in collaboration with the Presence 5 team.

Allison Guerin

Allison Guerin is the Senior Director of Education and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice for the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. She has served in her role since 2016. In her role, she oversees all education programs and services in Pediatrics, including programs for high school students, medical students, residents, medical fellows, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and professional development programming for faculty and staff. The Department of Pediatrics hosts over 1,000 faculty and staff, 350 full-time residents, fellows, and postdocs, and an additional 200 rotating learners throughout the year. In addition, Allison supports the department’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice mission by partnering with the Associate Chair to implement programming, policies, and services. Together, they also co-direct the Stanford Pediatrics Health Equity Advanced through Learning (HEAL) Initiative, a multimodal educational initiative whose aims are to foster a department and clinical enterprise trained in anti-racism, empowered to apply learnings to improve care, and promoting an environment of continuous learning and improvement. Previously, she was the Director of Graduate Education and Accreditation for the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Allison earned her doctorate in education from Vanderbilt University and her master’s in education from Stanford University.