Education & Training

Whitman-Walker Institute and the National LGBT Cancer Network have unveiled an online tool kit that helps providers and patients address barriers to health equity in care delivery through cultural competency and cultural humility education, by offering best practice tools for addressing assumptions, breaking down bias, and changing culture.

This Cultural Competency Toolkit provides standards and best practices for training health care providers and staff in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual/ace spectrum (A) cultural competence.

It is the culmination of 3 years of collaboration between expert physicians, psychologists, researchers, educators, trainers, and patient advocates from across the United States, including Whitman-Walker Institute and the National LGBT Cancer Network; Howard Brown Health; Fenway Health; Mount Sinai Hospital System; Callen-Lorde Community Health; the UCSF Center for Excellence in Transgender Care; the medical schools of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, George Washington University, and the University of Pittsburgh; the Human Rights Campaign; the AIDS Foundation of Chicago; and other partners.