Brittany L Morgan, Mariana C Stern ... Laura Fejerman
Adding a One Health approach to a research framework for minority health and health disparities encourages the exploration of new avenues of inquiry, multidisciplinary collaboration, and the consideration of new determinants of health.
Grant applications submitted to the NIH by African-American/Black PIs are less likely to be funded than applications from white PIs, and the NIH must find a solution that eliminates this racial disparity.
Those quoted and mentioned in stories in Nature News mostly have names associated with men and are much less likely to have names associated with East Asia.
Michael S Lauer, Jamie Doyle ... Deepshikha Roychowdhury
An analysis of peer review and funding outcomes of NIH research applications shows that funding disparities of topics preferred by African American Black investigators are not due to peer review preferences or biases.
Redaction, intended to obscure personal and institutional identity, reduced the gap between Black vs. White applicants in simulated review of real NIH scientific grant applications, thus providing qualified support for double-blinded models of peer review.
Concealing the identity of the principal investigator only partially closes the success gap between white and African American or Black researchers in NIH grant applications.
W Marcus Lambert, Martin T Wells ... Linnie M Golightly
Mentorship, financial security and a positive sense of self-worth increase the likelihood that underrepresented minority and female postdocs will pursue a career in academia.
Kia L Davis, Nicole Ackermann ... Vetta L Sanders Thompson
Many people canceled cancer screening and cancer care appointments during the pandemic, but cancer prevention and control practitioners must proactively facilitate their return to care to avoid widening cancer health disparities.