NIH Diversity Program - Award Announcement

Diversity Program Consortium Announced

NIH is investing approximately $31 million in fiscal year 2014 to develop new approaches that engage researchers, especially those from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical sciences, and prepare them to thrive in the NIH-funded workforce.

 
“The biomedical research enterprise must engage all sectors of the population in order to solve the most complex biological problems and discover innovative new ways to improve human health,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. “This program will test new models of training and mentoring so that we can ultimately attract the best minds from all groups to biomedical research.”
 
 
Diverse Voices
“Diversity in STEM: What It Is and Why It Matters” by National Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Fellow Kenneth Gibbs, Jr., PhD (@KennyGibbsPhD). Read it here: goo.gl/B06ztv
 
“Diversity: Pride in science” by M. Mitchell Waldrop in Nature. Read it here: http://www.nature.com/news/diversity-pride-in-science-1.15924
 
“Why Science Needs Advertising” from the Science Scene London blog. Read it here:http://sciencescenelondon.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/why-science-needs-advertising/
 
 
About this Program
The Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH-Funded Workforce program is funded through the NIH Common Fund, and managed by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities in partnership with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.