Data & Assessment

As a leading employer in Southern California, as an institution that wants to educate people in the very best way, and wants to provide research findings that change and improve the world, we need to have an environment that has diverse students, faculty, staff.

Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD
Associate Dean for Social Justice

Climate Survey

A culture survey for the Keck School was conducted by USC’s Institute for Intersectionality and Social Transformation (USC-IIST) in Fall 2022. The USC-IIST survey sets our baseline from which we can identify areas of opportunity and measure progress towards a more inclusive culture. The survey identified opportunity areas in the domains of access to opportunity, appreciation, equitable reward, transparency, and trust within our community across self-identifiers of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. We are committed to taking specific and measurable action to improve transparency in decision making, addressing discriminatory reporting, and professional development opportunities. Much of the training, care, and research in our school occurs at the department and division levels, so our efforts will also drill down to the unit level. Read the Executive Summary here.

DICE Inventory

Under the leadership of Dean Carolyn Meltzer, the Keck School of Medicine completed the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity (DICE) Inventory in 2022. The Keck School was one of 100 AAMC member medical schools that participated in the collective administration of the DICE Inventory. Findings from the assessment are being used to develop to augment DEI efforts at the Keck School.