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DEI activists insist that racial/ethnic group differences in academic readiness for medical school or performance in medical school must be evidence of racist systems. In response to this imagined racism, they demand reform that obfuscates differentiation in performance. So, for example, “holistic admissions” tone down the once-prominent role of MCAT scores and GPA in determining […]
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)is distributing a 14-question survey to healthcare organizations regarding their opinions and experiences pertaining to “structural racism.” The survey includes questions inquiring as to the prevalence of structural racism in a provider’s organization, how structural racism impacts “care delivery,” tactics utilized in addressing structural racism, the deployment of DEI-related […]
Trump admin needs to clarify what constitutes ‘promoting gender ideology,’ policy analyst says Since President Donald Trump took office, the National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $3 million to studies on transgenderism or “gender-affirming care.” The Fix conducted this research using the NIH’s Grant Reporter and inputting the following keywords: “transgender,” “gender-affirming,” and “gender identity.” […]
Medical watchdog organization Do No Harm has brought eyes to the American Psychological Association’s (APA) “antisemitic hate” by stationing a mobile billboard outside of their Washington, DC, headquarters exposing quotes from members, including “Kudos to Hamas” and “Intifada, Intifada.” The billboard displays controversial comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict made by members of the APA, which […]
The Virginia Commonwealth University – and its affiliated medical institutions VCU Health and VCU School of Medicine – are no strangers to DEI. VCU Health advertises its DEI programs on its website, while the medical school touts its commitment to DEI. Yet it’s clear DEI has pervaded these institutions even deeper. In fact, according to […]
RICHMOND, VA; March 19, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm submitted two complaints to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Duke University Health System (DUHS) and Geisinger College of Health Sciences (GCOHS). The complaints identify several instances in which DUHS and GCOHS engaged in unlawful race-based […]
EXCLUSIVE — More than 70 medical schools are under scrutiny from a watchdog group for maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and race-based selection policies, even after federal demands to eliminate discriminatory practices. A list from medical and civil rights watchdog Do No Harm has identified up to 70 medical schools still engaging in DEI-driven selection practices despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 […]
A longtime University of South Florida administrator is no longer part of the university system after comments he made about diversity, equity and inclusion surfaced online. Dr. Haywood Brown, who served as USF Health’s senior associate vice president for academic and faculty affairs and vice dean of faculty affairs for the Morsani College of Medicine, […]
Haywood Brown explained how University of South Florida simply changed DEI terms to avoid legal scrutiny The University of South Florida changed some DEI terminology within its school to avoid legal scrutiny, according to a doctor who has since resigned. Do No Harm released audio of Dr. Haywood Brown discussing the “slippery” ways the medical […]
Editor’s note: This blog post was initially submitted as a Comment to JAMA Network Open in response to the article, “Race-Specific and Race-Neutral Equations for Lung Function and Asthma Diagnosis in Black Children.” JAMA rejected our submission. In their article “Race-Specific and Race-Neutral Equations for Lung Function and Asthma Diagnosis in Black Children,” Chang, et […]
UPDATE: August 25, 2025 – Do No Harm is pleased to announce that a Philadelphia-area physician directory formerly known as the Black Doctors Directory is now the Community Health and Wellness Directory. Ability to participate in the Community Health and Wellness Directory is not determined on the basis of race. This after Do No Harm […]
RICHMOND, VA; March 18, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm filed a lawsuit against Penn Medicine, the Consortium of DEI Health Educators, and WURD Radio for their discriminatory physician directory that excludes doctors based on race. Penn Medicine, the Consortium of DEI Health Educators, and WURD Radio operate the Black Doctors Directory, an advertising and marketing opportunity provided exclusively to […]
Accreditation organizations continue to pressure the medical schools in their charge to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion at the expense of rigorous training for the next generation of health-care professionals, forcing administrators to choose whether to comply with the Trump administration’s new anti-DEI push and jeopardize their accreditation, or risk their accreditation by ditching the […]
FIRST ON FOX: A university doctor has resigned from his position after Fox News Digital reported on unearthed audio where he touted how he has been avoiding anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) laws in Florida while attacking state and federal officials, including top White House official Stephen Miller. “Shortly after learning of Dr. Brown’s comments, the university decided […]
RICHMOND, VA; March 18, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm published a report titled, “Unethical Expectations: How Accreditors Inject Identity Politics into Medical and Healthcare Education.” The report highlights 10 accreditors for medical and healthcare education that impose DEI requirements and/or reference the value of “diversity” in their accreditation standards. These standards range from explicitly requiring […]
Over the past decade, medical and healthcare education programs have increasingly shifted their missions toward political and social activism. Rather than focus their efforts on best preparing healthcare professionals through rigorous training and education, program administrators and faculty have instead worked to advance “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology. Do No Harm has documented this […]
RICHMOND, VA; March 17, 2025 – This month, Do No Harm launched our newsletter, “Youth Gender Medicine Today,” a new resource highlighting the current state of play in the field of pediatric gender medicine. The Spring 2025 edition of the newsletter, sent to Do No Harm members, providers of gender-related medical services, and other stakeholders […]
Last month, Dr. Lisa Cooper, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, appeared on an episode of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health podcast to defend the DEI movement and its underlying ideology. The episode, titled “The Concepts Behind The Language of Equity,” is framed as a response to – and […]