Dear SPH Community,

We are pleased to announce the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Fellowship is now accepting project proposals from faculty and staff for the Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 academic year.

As a reminder, the JEDI Fellowship launched last year and is an initiative that provides students with the opportunity to serve as paid consultants working with faculty and staff to advance our collective DEIJ agenda. The fellows support the School by ensuring our curricula, course materials, trainings, and research activities are inclusive, accessible, identity-affirming, and representative of the SPH community. More information about the JEDI Fellowship can be found here.

Over the past year, we hosted nine fellows supporting six projects at the School, and we are grateful to our inaugural class of fellows and supervisors for their great work over the past several months. We are delighted to be heading into our second year and starting the application process.

We encourage staff and faculty to submit applications for a JEDI Fellowship project. If selected, you will receive the support of a JEDI fellow that is centrally funded.

To participate in the program, faculty or staff members can submit a proposal that outlines a student project that engages with the work of any particular unit and advances our DEIJ agenda. The aim is that the projects in which the fellows engage will advance unit (e.g., department, administrative unit) goals rather than individual staff or faculty goals. Projects lengths can be either a semester or an academic year, and require between 5-10 hours per week for a fellow. All fellows will be guaranteed 1 semester in the fellowship program and can discuss with their supervisor about participating in the fellowship for a second semester.

Proposals for JEDI Fellowship projects are due on Wednesday, May 15 and will be reviewed by the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Committee and JEDI Fellowship Leadership Team. Selections will be made by June 1, and the program will commence this fall.

All the best,

Yvette Cozier, DSc
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
yvettec@bu.edu

Craig Andrade, RN, MPH, DrPH
Associate Dean for Practice
candrade@bu.edu

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