Food for Thought: Opportunities to Improve Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, and Participation in Epidemiology.
Food for Thought: Opportunities to Improve Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, and Participation in Epidemiology.
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深思熟虑：改善流行病学多样性、包容性、代表性和参与度的机会。
DOI：
10.1093/aje/kwaa104
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Jackson,ChandraL
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Jackson,ChandraL
DeVilbiss等人（Am J Epidemiol.二○二○年; 189（10）：998-1010）承担了改善流行病学研究协会（SER）成员的多样性、包容性、代表性和参与性的崇高和有价值的事业--这是社会的反映/缩影。本评论的目的是强调多样性的重要性，并提出倡议，这些倡议应围绕历史和当代普遍存在的权力分配不均所造成的不平等（例如，决策）和资源（例如，在机构和组织内提供资金。非穷尽性战略可包括使区域环境服务成为有助于填补资源缺口的机会和信息中心。还建议SER领导从现有的协会和科学举措中学习，通过在整个职业生涯中公平地纳入政策，系统和环境干预措施来改善科学文化。例子包括提供工具和激励措施，以解决显性或隐性的偏见，提高辅导技能，并消除可预测的障碍（例如，金融）。应避免明确标记多样性/包容性努力，并应根据影响而不是意图对倡议进行评估。我们的命运是相互关联的，我们都可以帮助增加多样性，包容性，代表性和参与性，以改善我们的科学，希望公平地改善公共卫生。
DeVilbiss et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2020;189(10):998–1010) have taken on the noble and worthy cause of improving diversity, inclusion, representation, and participation across the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) membership—a reflection/microcosm of society. The objective of this commentary is to underscore the importance of diversity and to offer initiative ideas, which should be centered around inequity stemming from the widespread historical and contemporary maldistribution of power (e.g., decision-making) and resources (e.g., funding) within institutions and organizations. Nonexhaustive strategies could include SER becoming an opportunity and information hub that helps to fill resource gaps. It is also recommended that SER leadership learn from existing associations and scientific initiatives to improve the culture of science in general by equitably incorporating policy, systems, and environmental interventions throughout the career spectrum. Examples include the provision of tools and incentives to address explicit or implicit biases, enhance mentoring skills, and remove predictable barriers (e.g., financial). Explicitly labeling diversity/inclusion efforts should be avoided, and the initiative should be evaluated based on impact rather than intent. Our fates are interconnected, and we can all help increase diversity, inclusion, representation, and participation to improve our science in hopes of equitably improving public health.