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Appendix E-23: National Institutes of Health Efforts to Promote Advancement of Women of Color in Biomedical Research
Pages 249-255

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... Achieving this mission requires continuous input of creativity and innovation from the nation's most talented scientists. Maintaining biomedical workforce diversity is vital to ensure participation of the most talented individuals from all groups, as well as to ensure commitment to broad research priorities, address health disparities, and enhance recruitment of diverse subjects into clinical research protocols.
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From page 250...
... For those reporting gender and ethnicity, the proportion of Hispanic women decreased relative to the proportion of non-Hispanic women; however, these relative differences were due to increases of persons reporting ethnicity, with most of them identifying as non-Hispanic. Within the total population of trainees and fellows, including the subset which did not report their gender and/or race, the percentage of Hispanic women actually increased slightly from 3% to about 5% in 2011.
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From page 251...
... While discrepancies in grant funding for Hispanic and Asian investigators were explained by confounding factors, no identified variables explain the considerably lower funding rates for Black investigators. Even after controlling for education and training, employer characteristics, previous awards, publication record, and country of origin, Black applicants were ten percentage points less likely to receive funding than White investigators.
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From page 252...
... Recent outcomes include modifying the biographical sketch section of NIH grant application to allow description of factors contributing to reduced productivity; tenure-clock extension for family leave; increasing paid parental leave for NIH trainees; and instituting a Back-Up Care Pilot Program for short-term care for dependents of NIH employees. Career advancement of women of color researchers is addressed by one of the seven committees of the Working Group, the Women of Color in Biomedical Careers Committee which recently launched WoCRn (www.wocrn.nih.gov)
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From page 253...
... Goals of the program include training qualified scientists lacking significant prior review experience to become effective reviewers, helping emerging reviewers advance their careers by exposing them to the review process, and enriching the pool of NIH reviewers by including scientists from lessresearch- intensive institutions as well as those from traditional research-intensive institutions. NIH has reached out to a wide range of institutions to solicit nominations for early career reviewers, and has made a special effort to publicize this program to underrepresented minorities.
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From page 254...
... Women - Asian Women - White Men - Other Races Men - Asian Men - White 100.00% 90.00% 80.00% Percent of Awardees 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 84.4% 84.5% 86.7% 89.0% 90.0% 89.4% 88.9% 88.6% 87.4% 86.4% 86.4% 86.8% % of total reporting gender and ethnicity Figure E-23-2 Self-identified Gender and Race of NIH Trainees and Fellows, Fiscal Year 20002011 (Excludes awards funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)
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From page 255...
... APPENDIX E WRITTEN TESTIMONIES 100.00% 90.00% 80.00% Percent of Awardees 70.00% Men Hispanic 60.00% Men Non-Hispanic 50.00% Women Hispanic 40.00% Women Non-Hispanic 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 62.5% 63.8% 64.1% 66.1% 68.0% 69.7% 70.7% 70.3% 69.3% 68.4% 68.2% 67.7% % of total reporting gender and ethnicity Figure E-23-3 Self-identified Gender and Ethnicity of NIH Research Grant Awardees Fiscal Years 2000-2011(Excludes awards funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) 100.00% 90.00% 80.00% Men - White Percent of Awardees 70.00% Men - Asian 60.00% Men - Other races 50.00% Women - White 40.00% Women - Asian 30.00% Women - Other races 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 91.2% 91.3% 91.1% 91.4% 91.5% 91.6% 91.6% 90.8% 89.7% 88.4% 87.4% 86.1% % of total reporting gender and ethnicity Figure E-23-4 Self-identified Gender and Race of NIH Research Grant Awardees, Fiscal Years 2000-2011 (Excludes awards funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)
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Key Terms

  • health disparities
  • american recovery
  • awards funded
  • reinvestment act
  • biomedical workforce

  • awardees reporting
  • nih trainees
  • research awardees
  • biomedical careers
  • increased slightly

  • nih director
  • research career
  • intramural research
  • research careers
  • nih health

  • mission requires
  • reporting ethnicity
  • diversity supplements
  • reporting gender
  • funding rates

  • culturally competent
  • persons reporting
  • excludes awards
  • hispanic women
  • workforce diversity

  • school graduates
  • disparities strategic
  • promote diversity
  • training awards
  • fight implicit


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