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DPH reports progress on racial equity action plans; HR outlines recruitment, training and data work
Summary
The Department of Public Health and DPH Human Resources reported midyear progress on a racial equity action plan: OHE will expand staff and publish a dashboard; DPH requires equity learning for staff, reports thousands of completed training modules, and HR detailed steps to reduce hiring wait times and address pay equity.
Department leaders updated the commission on midyear progress implementing the departmental racial equity action plan and related HR deliverables.
Dr. Ayanna Bennett, director of the Office of Health Equity, said the office is expanding staff and capacity (targeting about 10 OHE staff plus divisional equity leads) and developing an equity impact assessment tool and a public-facing equity dashboard (about 10 measures). She reported that DPH has already completed many activities in the racial equity action plan and that the commission is at about 60% of its plan items.
Bennett describe…
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