This week’s blog post is written by Kristi D. Graves, PhD, Associate Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Exciting news! The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Lombardi DEI Office) is launching its first survey, Lombardi Landscape: Assessing DEI Across the Cancer Center. The survey will be sent on Thursday, July 11, 2024, so watch for an email from LombardiDEI@georgetown.edu with your personalized link.
This survey is vital for fulfilling the requirements from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for our Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant. The NCI requires each comprehensive cancer center to have a “Plan for Enhancing Diversity” to work on increasing representation of individuals from different backgrounds in cancer research. The Lombardi Landscape survey aims to not only capture information on who is part of our cancer center and research teams, but how people feel about working at Lombardi in terms of inclusion and belonging. We have never done this type of survey before at Lombardi, and it is important to know where we are now so we can work toward improving in the future.
I would like to emphasize a few points about the survey:
- All information will be kept strictly confidential — individual data will never be shared. You can skip any question you do not want to answer, although the more complete data we have, the more confidence we can have about our next steps for ways to improve.
- The survey is super short! It should take five minutes or less to complete.
- Encourage others to take the survey. We want to invite everyone affiliated with Lombardi in Washington, D.C., and New Jersey to participate. Join us in this effort to create a more inclusive community. If you have students or trainees new to your team this summer, email us at LombardiDEI@georgetown.edu and we’ll connect with you to get their names and emails.
- Feel free to reach out to us. If you have any questions or concerns about the survey or other ideas you would like to share, please reach out to our office: LombardiDEI@georgetown.edu.
Thank you in advance for watching for the survey link and completing this inaugural Lombardi Landscape Survey.
Count yourself in!
Kristi
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