Administrative Manager, Department of Emergency Medicine
Why is breaking bias and valuing differences so important in 2022?
Now more than ever we are in need of new and radical solutions to the many problems we face today. The evidence is sufficient and clear. Diversity enhances creativity and leads to better decision making among many other benefits. What stands in the way? Bias. Bias undermines diversity. So many voices and perspectives have spent decades on the margins, left unheard. I often ask myself whether we would be in the position we are today had we heeded these voices and perspectives. Valuing difference has always been important. It is time to reframe the question and ask “What stands in our way in 2022 to eliminate bias and embrace diversity?”