Information About Bias
Unconscious Bias Presentations, Workshops, and Trainings
OFDD offers individualized presentations, workshops, and trainings on the topic of Unconscious Bias to departments and groups across the School upon request.
Creating a Level Playing Field
Stanford Professor Shelley Correll, Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, discusses how cognitive shortcuts can lead to bias in the workplace.
Understanding our Biases and Assumptions
Jo Handelsman, PhD, presents a summary of the substantial body of research on unconscious bias and assumptions in the academic hiring and promotion process. Handelsman is Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University.
Exploring Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine
The AAMC’s video explores the role of diversity efforts and bias in US academic medical centers.
Fresh Perspectives on Diversity
Ruth J. Simmons, PhD, President of Brown University from 2001-2012, speaks at Stanford Medicine’s Fresh Perspectives on Diversity Dean’s Lecture Series. A French professor before entering university administration, President Simmons held an appointment as a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown. After completing her PhD in Romance Languages and literatures at Harvard, she served in various faculty and administrative roles at the University of Southern California, Princeton University, and Spelman College before becoming president of Smith College, the largest women’s college in the United States. At Smith, she launched a number of important academic initiatives, including an engineering program, the first at an American women’s college.
Understanding Unconscious Bias
This video from The Royal Society in the UK introduces key concepts and current academic research around unconscious bias and is used to disrupt bias among the Royal Society selection and appointment panel members.
Take the CME course on Unconscious Bias In Medicine
OFDD developed this free CME activity which provides education on unconscious bias in the academic medicine workplace. Case studies will explore everyday examples of unconscious bias and exploring bias busting strategies to enable learners to understand how to bring the content into their own unique environments.
Test Yourself
The Implicit Associate Test (IAT) was created by researchers to understand biases in a wide variety of contexts.