Measuring Diversity of the National Institutes of Health-Funded Workforce
Measuring Diversity of the National Institutes of Health-Funded Workforce
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DOI：
10.1097/acm.0000000000001209
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
Mills, Sherry L.
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作者：
Heggeness, Misty L.;Evans, Lisa;Mills, Sherry L.
目的衡量美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 资助的劳动力队伍的多样性。作者利用相关劳动力市场的视角，更直接地了解 NIH 在通过 NIH 政策增强多样性方面可以产生哪些影响。 方法 以相关劳动力市场（定义为在美国从事生物医学科学家的具有高级学位的人员）为概念框架，并以公认的经济原理为依据，利用美国社区调查和 NIH 行政数据，计算了 2008 年至 2012 年 NIH 资助的生物医学劳动力的代表性比例，按种族、民族、性别和公民身份，并将其与潜在劳动力市场中的特征个体池进行比较。结果总的来说，这一时期的美国人口是衡量 NIH 资助的科学劳动力多样性的不准确的比较群体。经过准确测量，我们发现女性和传统上代表性不足的群体在 NIH 支持的博士后奖学金和实习以及指导职业发展计划中的代表性高于她们在相关劳动力市场中的代表性。同样的分析发现，这些人口群体在 NIH 资助的独立研究者群体中代表性较低。 结论 尽管这些发现提供了当前 NIH 资助的劳动力的概况，并为理解联邦在开发、维护和更新多样化科学人力资源方面的作用奠定了基础，但仍需要进一步研究来确定属于更多样化群体的初级和早期研究人员是否会自然过渡为 NIH 资助的独立研究者，或者他们是否会在获得独立研究员身份之前离开劳动力队伍。
PurposeTo measure diversity within the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded workforce. The authors use a relevant labor market perspective to more directly understand what the NIH can influence in terms of enhancing diversity through NIH policies.MethodUsing the relevant labor market (defined as persons with advanced degrees working as biomedical scientists in the United States) as the conceptual framework, and informed by accepted economic principles, the authors used the American Community Survey and NIH administrative data to calculate representation ratios of the NIH-funded biomedical workforce from 2008 to 2012 by race, ethnicity, sex, and citizenship status, and compared this against the pool of characteristic individuals in the potential labor market.ResultsIn general, the U.S. population during this time period was an inaccurate comparison group for measuring diversity of the NIH-funded scientific workforce. Measuring accurately, we found the representation of women and traditionally underrepresented groups in NIH-supported postdoc fellowships and traineeships and mentored career development programs was greater than their representation in the relevant labor market. The same analysis found these demographic groups are less represented in the NIH-funded independent investigator pool.ConclusionsAlthough these findings provided a picture of the current NIH-funded workforce and a foundation for understanding the federal role in developing, maintaining, and renewing diverse scientific human resources, further study is needed to identify whether junior-and early-stage investigators who are part of more diverse cohorts will naturally transition into independent NIH-funded investigators, or whether they will leave the workforce before achieving independent researcher status.