Join us during October’s Global Diversity Awareness and Black History Month to explore diversity and inclusion and our individual and collective roles in ensuring our sector, and our work, is welcoming to all. Leading up to and during October, we will be holding events, self-guided programmes, and the launch of a new inclusive events guide.
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 12:30-13:30: Better representation of who? Learnings from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
- Live event to lead us into Global Diversity Awareness Month.
Throughout October: Diversity in Communications
- Each week in October we will publish a short video and fact sheet exploring 4 poignant topics: Anti-racism, Racial Literacy, Diversity, Representation.
Also during October (Dates TBC):
Week commencing 14th October: Launch of A guide to inclusivity and accessibility for live events in medical communications
- Lunch of a new HCA guide providing practical tips and best practices for how to improve inclusivity and accessibility for live events in medical communications, produced in association with Oxford PharmaGenesis
Diversity in Communications
Each week in October we will publish a short video exploring 4 poignant topics: Anti-racism, Racial Literacy, Diversity, Representation. Accompanying these self-guided videos will be fact sheets and guides so as a team, or organisation, you can discuss and explore these topics further. And of course, October may be a month for focus, but these discussions, and the principles behind them, need to be continued across the year.
Led by Helena Boyce from YOUbuntu, the aim for this self-guided initiative is to help empower you with knowledge and understanding, to provide you with greater confidence when discussing and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in your working environments, your communication activity, and your everyday lives.
Helena is an established public speaker and training facilitator in these areas and brings her lived experience as a mixed-race mother of 2 children, educator and a cancer survivor who has personally experienced the inequities in Healthcare for diverse communities.
We all have busy lives, but please join us this October by taking some time out to recognise and celebrate our differences, when considering those around us and to whom we communicate, and help ensure we are inclusive in everything we do.
Diversity in Communications has been developed by the HCA in partnership with Mearns & Pike
