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Berkeley Public Health Climate Surveys
Berkeley Public Health Climate Surveys
We have completed several Berkeley Public Health (BPH) climate surveys during spring 2023, fall 2023, and spring 2024 (link is external to a folder with all three survey results included). Our spring 2023 survey focused on five areas: sense of belonging, microaggressions, trust and collective accountability, and a culture of wellness. The fall 2023 survey centered on assessing the events and activities offered to address fostering a sense of belonging, microaggressions, trust and collective accountability, and a culture of wellness. Most recently, our Spring 2024 survey collected a myriad of recommendations on how to best address/resolve some of the issues faculty, staff, and students are experiencing within BPH.
Spring 2023 Key Takeaways
• 80% or more respondents: feel they can talk to staff / faculty about a problem, feel respected and identify with others within BPH
• more than 70% respondents indicated that leadership care about and promote health and wellbeing
• close to 40% feel occasionally excluded at BPH
• 34% (114) respondents indicated they did experience discrimination / microaggression, mostly related position and race/ethnicity, followed by gender and age
• only 23% (10) respondents feel prepared to react or intervene if witnessing an instance of bullying, harassment or discrimination
• 39% report some knowledge of UCB / BPH resources where they can get assistance
Fall 2023 Survey Key Takeaways
30% respondents indicated they did experience discrimination /microaggression which is a 4% improvement on SP23
community events: 78% of respondents who attended are (very) satisfied (average across events)
workshop/training: 82% of respondents who attended found these (very) effective (average across workshops)
overall SPH Experience: only 7% of respondents expressed any level of dissatisfaction
Spring 2024 Key Takeaways
SP24: 36% (90/249) respondents indicated they experienced discrimination /microaggressions (6% increase on FL23): top 2 areas remain the same: position and race/ethnicity
SP24: 31% (77/249) respondents indicated they were on the receiving end of discrimination / microaggression
Other Reports & Surveys
Other Reports & Surveys
Each year we are asked to provide diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging content and data for various reports. During 2023-2024, Che Abram provided content, data, and feedback for the following reports and surveys:
BPH Multi-Year Plan for Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST) as required by Regents Policy 3103: Policy on Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (link is external)
External participation - CHOIR DEI Survey Results (link is external): Practices to Enhance DEI in the Health Services Research Workforce: An Environmental Scan of Academic Institutions and VA Research Centers: “Diversity in the health services research (HSR) workforce through the hiring, retention, and promotion of researchers from underrepresented groups (URGs) can improve the quality of research and decision making. Through their lived experiences, researchers and faculty from URGs have the ability to provide greater understanding of sociocultural factors impacting health and can contribute to a deeper understanding of health disparities and conditions that affect underserved populations.1-4 Research has shown that practices to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are occurring across multiple types of HSR workforces.5,6 However, the full scope of the DEI practices being implemented across HSR centers is not yet known. The purpose of our study is to identify DEI practices being implemented across both academic institutions and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research centers conducting HSR, and learn about the factors that impact implementation and sustainment of these practices.”
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