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NIH Listening Sessions to Inform Efforts on Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity
NIH launched the UNITE initiative in March of 2021 to address structural race and ethnicity-based discrimination in NIH-supported entities and the greater scientific community. As part of this initiative, NIH is holding a series of listening sessions to learn from external stakeholders about the full range of issues and challenges in advancing racial and ethnic equity in the biomedical research enterprise. Some of these issues include:
- Changing culture to promote equity, inclusivity, and justice
- Improving policies, transparency, and oversight
- Strengthening career pathways, training, mentoring, and the professoriate
- Ensuring fairness in review and funding deliberations
- Enhancing funding and research support for diverse institutions and historically under-resourced research areas
- Structural racism in the biomedical research enterprise
As a global leader in biomedical research, NIH carries a weighted responsibility to address the structural challenges and barriers affecting the NIH workforce and the biomedical community that hinder the progress necessary to support true health equity. The insights shared during these listening sessions will help to identify priorities for UNITE and inform the development of an NIH action plan.
If you have questions regarding the listening sessions, please contact UNITEInitiative@nih.gov.
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