A conversation about health justice with Diane White, the Dean of Antioch’s new Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions.
Diane shares her background, her focus on diversity and social justice in healthcare education, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing inequalities. The conversation also touches on Diane’s personal journey towards understanding health inequities and her goals for the new school in fostering graduates who can create positive change in the healthcare system.
Diane White has the hard but exciting job of creating a new school at Antioch: the Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions, of which she is the founding Dean. In this conversation, Diane discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on health inequities but didnt lead to meaningful reforms, the experiences she’s had as a nurse and professor that led her to care about health justice, the unique circumstances around the formation of this new school as part of the Coalition for the Common Good, and the ways Antioch is deliberately working to ensure its students learn to see and resist the inequities endemic in our healthcare system.
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To learn more about Diane White, read our feature-length profile of her, which we just published on Common Thread.
You can browse the first programs to launch from the Gradiate School of Nursing and Health Professions on Antioch’s website.
This interview was recorded on June 26, 2024 and released on July 8, 2024.