Belonging, Equity & Empowerment Diversity Officer Welcome Message Anti-Discrimination Policy Our Mission & Vision Meet the Team Equity Advisors Programs & Resources Affinity Groups Faculty Resources Student Resource Centers & Services Cultural & Heritage Months Welcome to the Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment Powered by discovery, innovation, and inclusive excellence, UCI School of Medicine is dedicated to advancing individual and population health to achieve its mission: Discover. Teach. Heal. Home About Belonging, Equity and Empowerment Celebrating ethnic and cultural differences At UCI School of Medicine, we are committed to recruiting, admitting and educating talented students — as well as hiring and promoting faculty and staff members — whose backgrounds reflect California’s rich ethnic and cultural diversity. anti-discrimination policy Welcome to the Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment The Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment (BEE) supports the advancement of inclusive excellence in medicine by promoting values, practices, programming and policies that reflect diversity, equity and inclusion, core values that invigorate the UCI School of Medicine’s mission: Discover. Teach. Heal. We strive to promote a campus community that is welcoming, supportive, culturally sensitive, and responsive to the diverse needs of our students, residents, fellows, faculty and staff. Message from the Diversity Officer Our Mission-based Programs The UCI School of Medicine celebrates Diversity & Inclusion with our mission-based programs. These programs focus on areas of healthcare for which a specific need has been identified. Students enrolled in these programs will enhance their general medical school training by receiving additional in-depth training in specific areas of healthcare. Medical school applicants are eligible to be considered for mission-based programs once they are admitted. PRIME LEAD-ABC Leadership Education to Advance Diversity–African, Black and Caribbean (PRIME LEAD-ABC) is a UCI School of Medicine mission-based program aimed at producing future physicians who are committed to addressing the health needs of African, Black and Caribbean communities in California, the United States, and beyond. PRIME LEAD-ABC Program PRIME-LC Program The Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC) is a five-year MD/Master’s program that is committed to training physicians to meet the needs of under-resourced Latino communities. PRIME-LC Program HEAL-IM Program Program for training medical students in foundations of integrative medicine, both for their own wellbeing and for guiding future patients to make evidence-based decisions related to incorporating complementary and alternative modalities into their care. HEAL-IM Program News Sep 01, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine Pre-Med Students Spend Summer Immersed in Biomedical Research Features & Briefs UCI School of Medicine Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment (DEI) Jul 13, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine Delivering Change: New Mom and MD Grad Aims to Improve Black Maternal Health Features & Briefs UCI School of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology PRIME LEAD-ABC Medical Education Alumni Relations Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment (DEI) May 19, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine MD/PhD Student Bianca Leonard Honored for Excellence in Health for the Latino Community Features & Briefs UCI School of Medicine Neurology PRIME-LC Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment (DEI) View All News BEE Connected Follow us on X @UCIOfficeofBEE