CENTER FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Ally for Women Faculty Award

Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development, this is one of the six CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards to recognize and honor the mentoring contributions and to further build a "culture of mentoring" here at MGH.


Do you have or know an outstanding mentor?

As part of the "CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards," the MGH Center for Faculty Development invites nominations for the Ally for Women Faculty Award. This $1,000 award will be given to a faculty member from any MGH department who serves as a strong collaborator, mentor, and sponsor for women. The recipient will have demonstrated support of women faculty by:

  • Listening in a generous and capacious way
  • Engaging in the deliberate inclusion of women
  • Providing career advice, feedback, encouragement, and motivation
  • Affirming, sponsoring, and celebrating women colleagues
  • Being an upstander in calling out bias
  • Advocating to change organizational practices and norms to remove barriers that inhibit women’s careers
  • Providing public support for the advancement and promotion of women colleagues through power opportunities and connections
Background

Research demonstrates that societal biases and institutional patterns prevent women from attaining the same success in their careers as men. To encourage and sustain a culture of stronger sponsorship of women and one in which institutional biases are confronted and changed, the MGH Center for Faculty Development created the Ally for Women Faculty Award to recognize allies who support and empower women colleagues in advancing their career and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which women can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles.

Eligibility
  • MGH faculty appointment
  • MD, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree
  • Harvard Medical School faculty appointment
Review Process

Nominees were evaluated and ranked by a multidisciplinary Review Committee. Nominees were notified and announced at the Celebration of Mentoring at MGH event on January 22, 2024. 

Nomination Requirements
  • Completed Nomination Form
  • Nominations for this award should be accompanied by a maximum of three nominating letters that can be jointly written (not to exceed 2 pages each)
  • Nominee's HMS CV

It is recommended that the letters include specific anecdotes and examples that demonstrate the nominee’s commitment to women’s professional and personal development as well as the nominee’s efforts to remove barriers that women face and provide public support for the advancement and promotion of women colleagues.

How to Nominate

This user-friendly portal allows you to submit electronic nominations to the Center for Faculty Development. The portal has been designed to allow users to:

  • View current calls and submit to open opportunities
  • Save and edit current nominations in progress
  • Submit completed nominations
  • View all your CFD nominations that have been submitted via the online portal

If you have questions, please submit them via e-mail to cfd@partners.org.

Contact us

The Center for Faculty Development offers consultations and seminars to assist in the career development of faculty and trainees.