Addressing Racial Disparities in NIH Funding

N. Comfort
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The United States (US) must strategically invest in diversifying its biomedical workforce to retain global leadership in biomedical research and to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the US. The under-representation of minority groups in the biomedical sciences is influenced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding process which relies heavily on peer review subject to bias. Despite recent initiatives to combat structural racism within the NIH, the NIH has done little to rectify racial disparities in funding allocation that have been known for over a decade. In this report, I evaluate current NIH proposals to reduce bias in peer review and present stronger policy options for reducing inequity in grant funding. I recommend that the NIH treat the race/ethnicity funding disparity as it did the early career investigator disparity and immediately relax paylines and simultaneously prioritize research topics that align with interests of under-represented investigators, while working to develop a modified lottery for grant funding as a long-term solution to the biases that can influence grant peer review. Policies to address disparities in grant funding will diversify the biomedical workforce and have a profound and long-term positive impact on providing equitable access to science careers, regardless of race.
解决NIH资助中的种族差异
美国必须战略性地投资于使其生物医学工作人员多样化,以保持生物医学研究的全球领导地位,并减少美国的种族和民族差异。少数群体在生物医学科学中的代表性不足受到美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)资助过程的影响,该过程严重依赖有偏见的同行评审。尽管最近在NIH内部采取了打击结构性种族主义的举措,但NIH在纠正十多年来众所周知的资金分配中的种族差异方面做得很少。在本报告中,我评估了目前NIH减少同行评审偏见的建议,并提出了减少拨款不平等的更强有力的政策选择。我建议NIH像对待早期职业研究者的差异一样对待种族/民族资助差异,立即放宽薪酬线,同时优先考虑与代表性不足的研究者利益一致的研究课题,同时努力开发一种改良的拨款抽签方式,作为可能影响拨款同行评审的偏见的长期解决方案。解决拨款资助不平等问题的政策将使生物医学工作人员多样化,并对不分种族地提供公平获得科学职业的机会产生深远和长期的积极影响。
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