In April, our team had the opportunity to visit One Brooklyn Health (OBH) and witness firsthand how they are training residents to provide patient-centered and responsive care. Supported by the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity program, the project team has worked with community partners and a teaching and advisory team to develop a thoughtful health… Read more »
Blog Category: Health Equity
Care that Comes to You: Building Trust Through Health Pop-up Clinics
Building trust with communities that have historically had reason to distrust the health care system can be a perplexing task: Where to start? With a grant through the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program, Claudia Fotzeu Toukam, MD, MPH, FACP and Darra Edwards, PharmD, MSOL/HCM have led an innovative initiative designed to provide health… Read more »
Request for Letters of Intent | Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program

The ABIM Foundation and the American Board of Internal Medicine are focused on improving the trustworthiness of the health care system. As part of this focus, the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program—a $320,000 initiative to support projects that: are led by individuals or groups of residents and faculty in internal medicine education and… Read more »
The Promise of Trust in Medical Education

How can clinicians rebuild trust in marginalized communities? That’s the question Dr. Julie Venci, a primary care physician at Denver Health and Med-Peds Program Director at the University of Colorado, set out to address. Through a grant from the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity grant program, she collaborated with health equity educators and leaders to… Read more »
The Power of Sociocultural Humility in Medical Training
How can medical trainees build deeper trust with patients from all walks of life? At Columbia University, internal medicine residents are finding answers through sociocultural humility – an approach that emphasizes self-reflection and discovery to understand oneself and then others in order to build honest and trustworthy relationships. Through partnerships with Food FARMcia program, HELP… Read more »