Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

The UCLA School of Dentistry is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive environment for students, trainees, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds and ethnicities. Fostering a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion is central to our core values and integral to achieving excellence in our education, patient care, research, and service endeavors.

We also recognize the need for a diverse dental workforce in addressing the oral health disparities affecting our communities. Through mentoring and recruitment efforts such as the UCLA Dental Post-Baccalaureate and the Summer Health Professions Education Programs, we seek to enrich the diversity of our own student classes and the national dental school pipeline to meet this need.