A Checklist Isn’t Enough: The Impact of Implicit Bias on Health Outcomes

Speaker: Stephanie L. Burke MS, MHA, CHES®

It is easy to tick off “completed task” on a list, it gives a feeling of accomplishment. However, not everything is a checklist especially when it comes to health. So why is it that some organizations treat their cultural competency & diversity training as a checklist? As the country’s population becomes more culturally and ethnically diverse, there is a growing need for cultural competency and implicit bias training in the workplace to address health disparities and improve health outcomes. The challenge is to incorporate diversity training in an effort to transform the workplace and improve the working relationships between healthcare professionals and their patients. This webinar will define implicit bias, explore the importance of diversity training and provide tools to build comprehensive diversity training.

Learning Objectives:

1. Improve diversity training in the healthcare workforce instead of simply completing a checklist.
2. Provide tools to include cultural humility, cultural competence, implicit bias
3. Understand the relationship between implicit bias and health outcomes in diverse communities