Current ADLM DEI initiatives

New and notable

• Read ADLM's statement reaffirming its commitment to the core values enshrined in its Strategic Plan.
• Learn about the inaugural DEIHE Leadership Award
• Listen to the Laborastories podcast - Dr. Shajani-Yi shares ADLM efforts to advance better healthcare for all (Spotify)
• Watch the webinar - Awareness and application: DEI and health equity basics for laboratory professionals
• Read about Applying DEIHE lens to your laboratory (JALM)

Other key initiatives

This is a short list of activities to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and health equity (HE) across the association, the lab medicine community, and patient health.

Collective engagement

• Tools such as the DEI Lens have been shared with volunteer committees to guide awareness and cultural transformation throughout the association.

Equity-focused guidance

• The Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine & NKF Guidance on Improving Equity in Chronic Kidney Disease
  
  
• Reconsidering the use of race adjustments in maternal serum screening - American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology

DEIHE leadership award

This award aims to spotlight individuals/clinical laboratory teams that champion diversity, equity, inclusion and health equity. One ADLM member and one Clinical Laboratory Team that has made significant contribution in raising awareness and advancing DEI initiatives in the laboratory medicine community will receive the Humans of ADLM – DEIHE Leadership Award. Individual award is $1,500/Team award is $3,000. Learn more about criteria and eligibility.

DEI and Health Equity webinar series

Awareness and application: DEI and health equity basics for laboratory professionals

Developed by the ADLM DEI Steering Committee, this on-demand webinar is the first in a series designed to empower attendees with definitions and frameworks to make DEI and health equity accessible. Register today for key insights from experts. Accent accredited.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe key diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and health equity terminology.
• List examples of unconscious bias that may impact the professional workplace of clinical laboratorians.
• Define intersectionality, power and identity conceptually and how it applies in oneself.
• Provide examples for applying the ADLM DEI lens in laboratory medicine.

Annual Meeting

ADLM was pleased to offer DEIHE related education at this year's ADLM Annual Meeting. Visit ADLM Annual Meeting Education for more information on upcoming ADLM 2024 and past annual meeting DEI and Health Equity related education offerings.

Publications

• CLN Health Equity Series

Scholars program

Students from select schools were invited to participate in the inaugural ADLM Scholars event during this year’s Annual Meeting. The goal of the program is to introduce the students to ADLM, laboratory medicine career paths and to start to build longstanding relationships with ADLM members, as mentors. The program provides mentorship, a panel on career pathways, and opportunities to attend a number of events during ADLM Annual Meeting. Information about the 2026 program will be available in January 2026. Learn more about the program and this year’s scholars.

High School Speaker Series

The High School Speaker Series aims to increase awareness and understanding of careers in clinical laboratory science among high school students through school-based engagement such as classroom presentations, science fairs, and career events. Learn more.

Other funding support

• Health Equity and Access Division offers Scholarships and Travel Awards. Learn more.

Questions & feedback

If you have questions about ADLM’s DEI initiatives or resource suggestions, please contact [email protected].