Program Resources

Read more about the activities of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) Working Group on the Biomedical Research Workforce here.

• “There Aren’t Qualified Minority Candidates” Is a Myth, by Viviane Callier, Scientific American, Nov. 22, 2016
• Science’s Minority Talent Pool is Growing – but Draining Away, by Ed Yong, The Atlantic, Nov. 22, 2016
• Thinking Outside the Pipeline, by Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 18, 2016
• Special Issue of CBE-Life Sciences Education: Broadening Participation in the Life Sciences, Eds. Kenneth D. Gibbs and Pat Marsteller, ASCB, Sept. 1. 2016
• Special Feature: From the NIH: A Systems Approach to Increasing the Diversity of the Biomedical Research Workforce, by Hannah A. Valantine, P. Kay Lund, and Alison E. Gammie, CBE Life-Sciences Education, Sept. 1, 2016
• Increasing Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce: Actions for Improving Evidence, published by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities, with the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities and the AAMC, July 2016
• National Institutes of Health addresses the science of diversity, by Hannah A. Valantine and Francis S. Collins, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
• When it comes to diversity grants, NIH hopes bigger is better, by Jeffrey Mervis, Science, Nov. 4, 2014