Reaffirming a deep commitment to health equity, the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (KPSOM) is proud to be recognized as an Inaugural Supporter of the Social Mission Metrics Initiative, an initiative of Social Mission Alliance (SMA). The school will be recognized at SMA’s upcoming conference, “Equity Amplified: Uniting Toward Social Mission Transformation,” at Duke University April 8 through 10, 2024.
“Social mission” refers to the contributions a school makes to health equity and addressing health disparities. In 2019, KPSOM participated in a national survey of the Social Mission Metrics Initiative (alongside 242 medicine, dentistry, and nursing schools), developed to assess the current state of social mission across health profession education in the United States and to provide schools with feedback about their own state of social mission. The schools’ missions, course content, community collaborations, diversity and inclusion, governance, institutional culture and climate, and research were assessed.
While the Social Mission Metrics Initiative does not publicly share the results from individual schools, it does publish aggregate data from the national survey. Because of this, the Social Mission Metrics Badge is a special recognition for KPSOM’s commitment to measuring its social mission. As an Inaugural Supporter, KPSOM is among the first institutions to receive the badge. Once this opportunity opens on a wider scale, the Social Mission Metrics Initiative hopes to make institutions more easily identifiable as being committed to improving the health of our nation.
For more information, visit the Social Mission Alliance website .
