DEIA and COSWD Strategic Plan RFIs

Marie A. Bernard, M.D., NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity. As you have hopefully seen, NIH is focused on identifying and addressing challenges and threats to equity across systems and populations. This is demonstrated by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and numerous NIH offices focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) (Office of Research on Women’s Health; Tribal Health Research Office; Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office, and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion [EDI]), including the establishment of the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD) in 2014. To further enhance our focus in this area, we are developing an NIH-wide strategic plan for DEIA. Managed by the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the NIH Director, my office is privileged to co-lead the effort with our colleagues in EDI and the Office of Human Resources. The plan will bring together input from all NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, as well as the NIH UNITE Initiative. It will serve as a blueprint for current and future activities in the broad DEIA space. An RFI seeking input into the structure of the NIH-wide Strategic Plan for DEIA is forthcoming shortly. In the interim, I am very pleased to announce that my office has, over the last twelve months, worked on updating our own strategic plan focusing on our core mission, the science of scie...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Open Mike DEIA Diversity diversity equity inclusion and accessibility Request For Information (RFI) Source Type: funding