Learn About NIH ’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan for FY 2023 to 2027

We are pleased to announce that NIH recently released its Fiscal Years 2023-2027 NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). We invite the research community to learn more about our efforts. You are encouraged to apply any of them to advance your organization’s DEIA goals too. The plan articulates NIH’s overarching vision for embracing, strengthening, and integrating DEIA into our various activities. It aligns with the current NIH-Wide Strategic Plan and White House Executive Orders. The framework is organized around NIH’s accomplishments, needs, opportunities, and challenges in three key areas, or Objectives: Operations: Grow and Sustain DEIA Through Structural and Cultural Change Workforce: Implement Organizational Practices to Center and Prioritize DEIA in the Workforce Research: Advance DEIA Through Research Much of this plan centers around NIH’s internal workforce, ensuring NIH remains a people-centered organization. But there are several areas relevant for the extramural research community as well. For instance, ensuring public accountability and confidence in NIH’s activities and progress is part of the first objective. The second objective discusses NIH’s commitment to equitably fund a broad range of organizations to address the nation’s biomedical and behavioral research needs. In addition, strategies in the third objective mention reviewing current inclusion policies and practices as well as developing resource...
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