Mount Sinai Exposed
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Transgender Ideology
Climate Activism
Questionable Partnerships
- Mount Sinai runs an Office for Health Data, Outcomes, and Engagement Strategy to promote health equity cultural awareness. It strives to “embed a lens of equity in all operations.”
- The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Institute for Health Equity Research hosted “conversations on health equity,” including a seminar series titled: “Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Shining The Light Of Truth On Racism In Pediatrics” where the speaker noted that everyone in the seminar “may be on different phases in your anti-racism journey” and that she’s “had multiple experiences when confronted with race and racism where I met with tears of white fragility.”
- In another seminar titled: “Advancing Language Access Equity Through Research” the speaker was described as an “equity to action scholar” who has done groundbreaking research on “workforce diversity, the impact of racism and social determinants on healthcare and health.”
- Mount Sinai hosts Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to uphold equity which include “Black Leaders Advocating for Change and Community (BLACC),” “Heritage of Latinx Alliance (HOLA),” Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Group,” and “Nurses 4 Equity.”
- Nonprofit Do No Harm exposed Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for being at the forefront of promoting DEI in medical education. According to Do No Harm, Mount Sinai operated a program titled “Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education,” and worked to incorporate DEI by evaluating teachers for their DEI contributions and advertising jobs that required applicants to share their DEI commitments.
- The Human Rights & Social Justice Program (HRSJ) is run by second-year medical students for first year medical students to develop understandings of health equity, human rights and social justice through research, advocacy, and coursework.
- Mount Sinai runs the Keith Haring Youth Gender Center that provides care for “transgender and gender diverse youth.”
- The Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery offers hormone therapy, transgender intervention surgeries, and other services for transgender patients.
- Mount Sinai also provides transgender resources for kids as young as 8 years-old, including the Trevor Project, camps for transgender and gender non-conforming kids.
- According to the Do No Harm database, Mount Sinai facilities performed 139 sex change interventions on kids from 2019 to 2023.
- Mount Sinai touted its designation from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as a LGBTQ+ leader in healthcare equality in 2024.
- On its “Sustain Mount Sinai” webpage the hospital states: “Reducing our carbon footprint is not just an operational goal; it is an essential part of building a healthier future.”
- Mount Sinai has been recognized by Practice Greenhealth and has received numerous awards in 2025 for its climate agenda.
- The hospital has been part of the New York City Carbon Challenge since 2009, and it signed the NYSIF Climate Action Pledge where Mount Sinai pledged to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030.
- Mount Sinai also signed the Cool Food Pledge in an effort to reduce emissions from food.
- Mount Sinai has a concerning, longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
- In 2008, after his sex crime conviction, Epstein donated at least $250,000 to Mount Sinai and sponsored various events and projects.
- One doctor at Mount Sinai dated Epstein and kept in touch with him for years, asking for favors from Epstein and invited him to her home, even after Epstein pled guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution.
- According to Politico, a surgeon at Mount Sinai told Epstein “anything is possible” for him, including special medical requests.
- Epstein was given special access to doctors and favors at Mount Sinai, including a direct line to the hospital and the ability to purchase ambulances for personal use.
