Intramural Diversity in Medical Research Initiatives

在2020财年，NIMHD DIR通过参与我们自己的多样性计划、为整个NIH园区的其他多样性倡议提供资金、专注于增加NIH研究员和终身教职跟踪研究员职位的申请者多样性以及与NIH员工多样性相关的委员会服务活动来支持和促进多样性。 在2020财年，NIMHD DIR支持了各种DIR特定的和NIH范围内的多样性倡议，包括资助从学士后到博士后水平的各种受训人员，一名代表不足的医学研究学者计划研究员，以及向早期职业调查人员颁发的九个科尔曼健康差距研究奖。此外，我们资助了9名兼职调查人员进行健康差异研究，并在他们的实验室指导不同种族/民族的受训人员。所有受训人员都来自代表性不足的种族/族裔群体。 为响应国际癌症研究所为2020财年征集建议的号召，DIR资助了9个NIMHD William G.Coleman，Jr.奖项，以支持早期研究人员的健康差距研究项目。在2020财年，我们的四名终身教职调查人员作为NIH杰出学者计划的积极成员支持NIH的劳动力多样性，该计划旨在促进NIH的多样性和包容性文化。此外，他们中的三人正在参加NIH集中的斯塔特曼终身教职跟踪调查员(TTI)搜索的审查委员会(两人作为联合主席)。NIMHD DIR是Stadtman TTI搜索执行委员会(EC)的联合主席。在2020财政年度，斯塔特曼选举委员会对申请书进行了重大修改，要求候选人提供关于他们的指导理念以及与指导妇女和代表人数不足的少数群体的人有关的活动的信息。还指示审查委员会在其摘要说明和对候选人的评分中列入这些细节。 最后，在20财年的委员会和相关服务方面，Npoles博士继续在NIH杰出学者项目规划委员会、NINDS暑期实习项目规划委员会、MRSP执行指导委员会任职。她在招聘不同候选人、健康差距研究培训内容和结果跟踪方面为这些计划提供了建议。为了支持多元化的努力，Npoles博士为NIH妇女健康研究办公室、波多黎各大学健康差异研究培训研讨会、德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校推进拉美裔癌症科学会议、2020年NIH临床和翻译研究补助金撰写课程和临床研究员补助金发放课程、NIH-Howard大学暑期健康专业人员教育计划、少数族裔老龄研究资源中心辅导网络研讨会和NIMHD健康差异研究所发表演讲。 一项新的培训计划正在规划阶段，以促进翻译健康差异研究的多样性。该计划将为硕士水平的学生提供攻读博士学位和从事后期翻译行为研究的机会，以减少健康差距。

During FY20, NIMHD DIR supported and promoted diversity by engaging in our own diversity programs, funding other diversity initiatives across the NIH campus, focusing on increasing the diversity of applicants to fellowships and tenure-track investigator positions at NIH, and committee service activities related to NIH workforce diversity. In FY20 NIMHD DIR supported various DIR-specific and NIH-wide diversity initiatives, including sponsoring diverse trainees from the post-baccalaureate to post-doctoral levels, an underrepresented Medical Research Scholar Program fellow, and nine Coleman health disparities research awards to early career investigators. Also, we funded 9 Adjunct Investigators to conduct health disparities research and mentor racially/ethnically diverse trainees in their labs. All trainees were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. In response to an IRP-wide call for proposals for FY20, DIR funded 9 NIMHD William G. Coleman, Jr., awards to support health disparities research projects by early investigators. For FY20, four of our tenure-track investigators are supporting workforce diversity at NIH as active members of the NIH Distinguished Scholars Program, which aims to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion at NIH. Furthermore, three of them are participating on review committees (2 as Co-Chairs) for the NIH centralized Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator (TTI) search. The NIMHD DIR is serving as Co-Chair of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Stadtman TTI search. In FY20 the Stadtman EC made critical changes to the application to request information from candidates on their mentoring philosophy and activities related to mentoring women and persons from underrepresented minority groups. Review committees were instructed also to include such details in their summary statements and ratings of candidates. Finally, in the area of committee and related service for FY20, Dr. Npoles continued to serve on the NIH Distinguished Scholars Program Planning Committee, the NINDS Summer Internship Program Planning Committee, the MRSP Executive Steering Committee. She advised these programs on recruitment of diverse candidates, health disparities research training content, and outcomes tracking. In support of other diversity efforts, Dr. Npoles gave talks for the NIH Office of Research on Womens Health, University of Puerto Rico Novel Methodologies in Health Disparities Research Training Symposium, the UT Health San Antonio Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos Conference, 2020 NIH Course in Clinical and Translational Research Grant Writing and Grantsmanship Course for Clinical Fellows, NIH-Howard University Summer Health Professions Education Program, Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research mentoring webinar, and NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute. A new training program to promote diversity in translational health disparities research is in the planning stage. The program will prepare Masters level students to pursue a doctoral degree and career in late-stage translational behavioral research to reduce health disparities.