Building a Coalition for Change: The Yale Department of Psychiatry Accountability, Respect, Community & Humanity Task Force

Racism remains a problem in academic medicine, and little guidance is available on how to create lasting change. This column describes the authors' efforts to develop a task force grounded in theory on community coalition development to build a representative and sustainable coalition, which was initially formed to advance antiracism in an academic psychiatry department. The authors share the processes used and lessons learned to help other departments, academic medical centers, and medical systems work to combat racism.