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This project proposes to expand SENTRY (surveillance of Enrollment Trends and Representation Yearly), a multi-profession surveillance system tracking the racial, ethic, and gender diversity of health professions applicants and matriculants to assess the impact of the 2023 Supreme Court affirmative action decision and provide analyses of trends across schools, states, and professions, helping educators and policymakers understand changes and inform strategies to build a health workforce that better reflects the U.S. population.

The 2026 LGBTQ+ Nursing Summit is a national convening hosted by the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno, focused on advancing nursing’s role in improving health and health care for LGBTQ+ people. LGBTQ+ populations continue to experience health inequities driven by stigma, discrimination, and a policy environment that increasingly challenges access to affirming care. Nurses, as the largest segment of the health care workforce, are uniquely positioned to address these inequities across practice, education, research, and community settings.

This project evaluates and improves fairness in AI-enabled OSCE assessments by integrating psychometric measurement-invariance principles with modern algorithmic-fairness methods. The project examines the fairness of system assessments across learner demographic groups, identifies where disparities arise, and implements fairness-aware recalibration. The expected outcomes include a framework for strengthening assessment infrastructure and informing emerging standards for equitable AI in medical education. 

This project aims to embed shame competence as a core professional practice; i.e., the ability to constructively engage with, and avoid inducing shame while mitigating its destructive potential. They will establish a shame-competent Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University through structured training sessions tailored to faculty, departmental leaders, learners, and clinical staff.