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NIH director calls for greater diversity in research work force
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National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., reported that the NIH has "fallen way short" in its goals to achieve diversity in the research work force. He expressed his disappointment with this current status quo during his presentation, "Health Disparities Research and the Need for Diversity in the U.S. Biomedical Workforce," at the July 27 NMA House of Delegates session.
"There is a desperate need for more diversity in science and medicine in the U.S.," Dr. Collins said. "We are not capturing the best minds from all groups, regardless of race or ethnicity. This is simply unacceptable." read more
NIH Uncovers Racial Disparity in Grant Awards
It takes no more than a visit to a few labs or a glance at the crowd at a scientific meeting to know that African-American scientists are rare in biomedical research. But an in-depth analysis of grant data from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on page 1015 in this issue of Science finds that the problem goes much deeper than impressions. Black Ph.D. scientists—and not other minorities—were far less likely to receive NIH funding for a research idea than a white scientist from a similar institution with the same research record. The gap was large: A black scientist's chance of winning NIH funding was 10 percentage points lower than that of a white scientist. read more
NIH Request for Information (RFI): Input into the Deliberations of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director Working Group on the Future Biomedical Research Workforce read more