A program aiming to diversify the NIH workforce could award up to $20 million a year to neuroscience, drug abuse, and mental health investigators from minority groups.
. Officials emphasize that NIH cannot make funding decisions on the basis of race, gender, or ethnicity.Ratio of applicants with at least one funded proposal to total applicants. , passes legal muster because it aims to enhance diversity “in a very broad sense,” Lauer says. An NIH spokesperson notes that although the program “encourages” applications from researchers in underrepresented groups, “it is not exclusive—all new investigators and at-risk investigators are eligible to apply.
Dzirasa sees the program as accomplishing the same goal as last year’s NINDS policy: allowing program officers to fund grants from Black and other minorities that just missed the funding cutoff for the regular grant pool. “This gives them room to correct bias that they know is in their system,” he says.
And Dzirasa says the program would be more effective if it were in place across NIH. “NIH as a whole should be making a commitment,” he says.
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