Supporting and promoting Black physiologists: how can the APS help?
Supporting and promoting Black physiologists: how can the APS help?
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支持和促进黑人生理学家：APS 如何提供帮助？
DOI：
10.1152/ajpheart.00082.2023
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2023
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Warrington,JunieP
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Robinson,AustinT;Jenkins,NathanielDM;Sanchez,SofiaO;Haack,KarlaKV;Lee,DexterL;Mathis,KeisaW;Warrington,JunieP
多样性对于提高所有科学专业学会的科学质量、决策、战略规划和运作至关重要。一般来说，当一个问题听取了来自不同群体的不同意见时，就会做出最好的决定。为了呼应《美国生理学-心脏和循环生理学杂志》最近的一篇社论，所有努力改善美国生理学会(APS)的多样性，无论是关注性别、种族/民族、年龄和性取向，都是必要的。在种族/族裔方面，提交人承认仍然需要支持所有代表不足的少数群体(1)。然而，这一视角关注的是提拔黑人生理学家的重要性。在美国，黑人和非裔美国人在科学、技术、工程、数学和医学(STEMM)职业生涯的各个阶段，通过劳动力领导力在本科水平上的代表性明显不足(2)。随着职业阶段的推进，这种代表性不足的情况被放大了。例如，13%的人口是黑人，但在2020年，生物和生物医学博士学位获得者中只有4.4%被确认为黑人或非裔美国人(3)。1具体到生理学，黑人科学家占博士后实习生的8%，博士后科学家的6%，生理学系教职员工的不到1%(4)。这篇社论将强调这些统计数据是如何成为传播不平等的更大系统结构的副产品，以及APS如何独特地定位于帮助黑人生理学家解决这一差距。
Diversity is vital to enhance science quality, decisionmaking, strategic planning, and operations of all scientific professional societies. Generally, the best decisions are reached when an issue has been informed by a variety of opinions from a diverse group (1). To echo a recent editorial in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart andCirculatory Physiology, all efforts to improve diversity in the American Physiological Society (APS), whether focused on gender, race/ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation, are warranted. Within the context of race/ethnicity, the authors acknowledge the continued need of support for all underrepresented minority groups (1). However, this perspective focuses on the importance of promoting Black physiologists. In America, Black and African-American individuals are significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) careers at every stage, at the undergraduate level through workforce leadership (2). This underrepresentation is amplified with the advancing career stage. For example, 13% of the population is Black, but in 2020, only 4.4% of doctorate recipients in biological and biomedical sciences identified as Black or African American (3). 1 Specific to physiology, Black scientists represent 8% of predoctoral trainees, 6% of postdoctoral scientists, and less than 1% of faculty in physiology departments (4). This editorial will highlight how these statistics are a by-product of larger systemic structures that propagate inequity and how APS is uniquely positioned to assist Black physiologists to tackle this disparity.