Arevika Stepanian

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Board Director

Arevika Stepanian is Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Board Director at the National Association for Healthcare Security in the United Kingdom. Healthcare security is a field of its own because it sits on a structural contradiction: a hospital is by nature an open place from which no one may be turned away, and it holds at the same time controlled medicines, expensive equipment, patient data and staff who face verbal and physical violence more than most professions. Hospital security therefore rests not on exclusion but on behaviour management, de-escalation and protecting staff while keeping the door open. The equity, diversity and inclusion portfolio within that field touches who is subjected to violence, who is treated as a suspect, and how patients of different backgrounds are handled.