Structural Racism in Psychiatric Research Careers: Eradicating Barriers to a More Diverse Workforce.

ABSTRACT: Investigators from minoritized backgrounds are underrepresented in psychiatric research. That underrepresentation contributes to disparities in outcomes of access to mental health care. Drawing on lived experience, scholarly qualitative reports, and empirical data, the authors review how the underrepresentation of minoritized researchers arises from interlocking, self-reinforcing effects of structural biases in our research training and funding institutions. Minoritized researchers experience diminished early access to advanced training and opportunities, stereotype threats and microaggressions, isolation due to lack of peers and senior mentors, decreased access to early funding, and unique community and personal financial pressures. These represent structural racism-a system of institutio

SUBMITTER: Widge AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227892 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature