MISSION
Diversity by Doing HealthTech (DxD) is an industry-based collaborative with a mission to enhance diversity, inclusion and equity in our health technology innovation ecosystem with a particular focus on early to mid-stage companies.
WELCOME
When you look at the arc of history, you realize that a single person or event can be the catalyst for change. Making that change permanent requires sustained, intentional and committed individuals who are willing to take action and own the outcomes. At this moment, in this field which impacts the entirety of society and our global community, we stand at a crossroads: we can choose now to embrace diversity of experience, perspective and representation to improve medical outcomes for women and people of color. Rather than that being an exception, join DxD. Let’s work together and make diversity, equity and inclusion in healthtech the norm.
DxD was founded and is supported as a partnership between the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign and Fogarty Innovation.
Initially centered on gender inequity, the initiative has expanded to target racially and culturally diverse and underrepresented groups. Research has proven that the quality of care and outcomes are different for people of color, women, and gender nonconforming individuals.
We can only solve that by acknowledging intentional or unintentional bias, accepting the imperative of needed change and investing time and resources to build a community of innovators and healthcare professionals that will respond to these inequities.
