Intramural Diversity in Medical Research Initiatives

在2013财年，NIMHD DIR通过参与我们自己的多样性计划，资助整个NIH校园的其他多样性倡议，以及与NIH种族和民族平等以及劳动力多样性相关的委员会服务活动，支持和促进多样性。在2013财年，NIMHD DIR继续推进健康差距研究和劳动力多元化的两个旗舰计划，NIMHD William G.Coleman Jr.，PhD，少数民族健康和健康差距研究创新奖和NIMHD DIR辅助调查员计划。 NIMHD DIR通过加入支持研究所间内分泌学培训计划(IETP)的伙伴关系，扩大了其合作努力，以增加生物医学劳动力的多样性。这是一个为期三年的培训计划，旨在将内科医生培养成致力于调查职业的一流内分泌学家。NIMHD DIR协助面试和遴选，并为一名专注于健康差距的研究员提供该计划中一个为期3年的名额的资金。 此外，NIMHD DIR继续资助和接待两名专注于健康差距研究的暑期实习生。这些暑期实习生来自我们与NINDS部落社区健康差距暑期实习计划的合作伙伴关系。这两名暑期实习生自称是美国印第安人，他们在美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民中进行了与烟草产品使用有关的研究。 NIMHD/DIR与NIH OITE学院就健康差距问题进行了合作，并举办了一次研讨会，作为NIH全研究所健康差距研讨会系列的一部分。NIMHD/DIR的科学顾问和培训主任与三名首席调查人员共同主持了研讨会，题为：NIMHD内部计划的研究，“各种职业道路和方法的范例”，60多名研究员和NIH研究人员参加了研讨会。整个研讨会系列使OITE健康差距研究院研究员有机会与健康差距研究领域的领导人互动，研究职业道路，并参照对弱势人口产生不利影响的健康差异，深入了解公平、经济、健康的社会决定因素以及生命长度和质量的研究视角。 区分学者计划。这是一项NIH计划，旨在通过支持致力于促进生物医学研究队伍多样性和包容性的主要研究人员，在NIH内部研究计划内建立一个包容性社区。到目前为止，所有6名DIRS终身教职跟踪调查人员都已被选入该项目，并在NIH和他们自己的研究中支持劳动力多样化。 与DEIA相关的委员会服务。DIR调查人员通过委员会服务为国家卫生研究院的DeIA工作做出了巨大贡献。我们的四名调查人员参加了NIH集中式斯塔特曼调查人员搜索的审查委员会(两名联合主席)。通过这样做，他们正在促进NIH健康差距和少数群体健康研究的价值，并帮助将多样性和包容性置于候选人考虑的前列。Stadtman的申请者现在被要求提交一份声明，作为他们申请的一部分，重点是他们的指导理念和与指导妇女和来自代表性不足的少数群体的人有关的活动。审查委员会还被指示在其摘要说明和对候选人的评级中列入这些细节。这些信息有助于NIH科学主任(SD)聘用致力于DEIA的TTI。我们的三名研究人员担任杰克逊心脏研究(JHS)社会健康决定因素(SDOH)领导团队的成员，致力于收集数据和信息，以对少数族裔和健康差距做出信息性推断。 科学主任继续担任NIH联合倡议N委员会的联合主席，重点是创建关于少数群体健康和健康差距的新研究，NIMHD DIR的两名调查人员是NIMHD种族和族裔平等委员会(REEC)的创始成员Kelvin Choi博士(共同主席)和Leonardo Mario-Ramirez博士。随着ReEC过渡到新的包容性多样性委员会(IDC)，田村康介博士和Kristen Hamilton-Moseley博士现在在IDC服务，以实施NINHD种族和平等计划。 训练。在2013财年，NIMHD DIR作为健康差距研究培训的重要场所，总共为42名学员提供了培训：8名博士后研究员、1名博士后研究员、24名学士后研究员、9名暑期实习生和1名医学研究学者项目研究员。其中两名毕业后的研究员由香农·曾克博士的实验室接待，该实验室的研究项目由NIMHD DIR主持。这些受训人员绝大多数来自科学界代表性不足的群体，例如，大多数是妇女。DIR内部对培训机会的需求一直超过了能力。DIR调查员人数的持续增加将有助于满足这一需求。 新计划：基于社区的研究奖。DIR设想，以社区为基础的研究是将我们的研究放在社区背景下的重要方法，以便我们能够制定最适当的干预措施，以减少健康差距和促进健康公平。与NINR合作，我们发起了NIMHD-NINR基于社区的研究奖，以鼓励社区服务组织的内部调查人员和外部调查人员之间的合作。

During FY23, NIMHD DIR supported and promoted diversity by engaging in our own diversity programs, funding other diversity initiatives across the NIH campus, and committee service activities related to NIH racial and ethnic equity and workforce diversity. In FY23, NIMHD DIR continued its two flagship programs to advance health disparities research and workforce diversity, the NIMHD William G. Coleman Jr., PhD, Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award and the NIMHD DIR Adjunct Investigator program. NIMHD DIR expanded its collaborative efforts to increase the diversity of the biomedical workforce by joining the partnership supporting the Inter-Institute Endocrinology Training Program (IETP). It is a three-year training program that seeks to train internal medicine physicians to become first-rate endocrinologists dedicated to investigative careers. NIMHD DIR assisted with interviews and selection and is providing funding of one 3-year spot in the program for a fellow focused on health disparities. In addition, NIMHD DIR continued to fund and host two summer interns focused on health disparities research. These summer interns are from the partnership we have with the NINDS Health Disparities in Tribal Communities Summer Internship Program. These two summer interns, who self-identified as American Indian individuals, conducted research related to tobacco product use among American Indian/Alaska Native peoples. NIMHD/DIR collaborated with the NIH OITE Academy on Health Disparities and conducted a seminar as part of their NIH institute-wide Health Disparities Seminar Series. NIMHD/DIR Scientific Advisor and Training Director moderated the seminar with three Principal Investigators titled: The Research of the NIMHD Intramural Program, "Examples of Varied Career Paths and Methodologies," which was attended by over 60 fellows and NIH researchers. The overall seminar series gives the OITE Academy on Health Disparities fellows an opportunity to interact with leaders in health disparities research on career pathways and gain insight on research perspectives of equity, economics, social determinants of health and length and quality of life referencing health differences that adversely affect disadvantaged populations. Distinguish Scholar Program. This is an NIH program aims to build an inclusive community within the NIH Intramural Research Program by supporting principal investigators who are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the biomedical research workforce. So far, all 6 of DIRs tenure-track investigators have been selected for the program and are supporting workforce diversity in at NIH and in their own research. DEIA-related Committee Service. DIR investigators are making tremendous contributions to DEIA efforts at NIH through committee service. Four of our investigators participate on review committees (2 as Co-Chairs) for the NIH centralized Stadtman Investigator search. In doing so, they are promoting the value of health disparities and minority health research at NIH and helping to bring diversity and inclusion to the forefront in consideration of candidates. Stadtman applicants are now required to submit a statement as part of their application that focuses on their mentoring philosophy and activities related to mentoring women and persons from underrepresented minority groups. Review committees are instructed also to include such details in their summary statements and ratings of candidates. This information is helpful to the NIH Scientific Directors (SDs) in hiring TTIs who are committed to DEIA. Three of our investigators serve as members of the leadership team with the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Leadership Team, working on gathering data and information to make informative inferences in minority and health disparities. The Scientific Director continued to Co-Chair the N Committee of the NIH UNITE initiative focused on creating new research on minority health and health disparities and two NIMHD DIR investigators were founding members of the NIMHD Racial and Ethnic Equity Committee (REEC), Dr. Kelvin Choi (Co-Chair) and Dr. Leonardo Mario-Ramirez. With the transition of the REEC into the new Inclusive Diversity Committee (IDC), Dr. Kosuke Tamura and Dr. Kristen Hamilton-Moseley are now serving on the IDC to implement the NINHD Racial and Equity Plan. Training. During FY23, NIMHD DIR served as the prominent site for health disparities research training for a total of 42 trainees: 8 post-doctoral fellows, 1 pre-doctoral fellows, 24 post-baccalaureate fellows, 9 summer interns, and 1 medical research scholar program fellow. Two of the post-baccalaureate fellows were hosted by Dr. Shannon Zenk's lab whose research program is hosted by NIMHD DIR. The overwhelming majority of these trainees were from underrepresented groups in science, e.g., and most were women. Demand for traineeship opportunities within DIR has always exceeded capacity. Continued growth in the number of DIR investigators will help meet this demand. New program: Community-based research award. The DIR envisions that community-based research is an important approach to ground our research in the community context so that we can develop the most appropriate interventions to reduce health disparities and promote health equity. In partnership with NINR, we launched the NIMHD-NINR Community-based research award to stimulate collaborations between intramural investigators and extramural investigators at community-serving organizations.