Measuring Diversity of the National Institutes of Health-Funded Workforce.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To measure diversity within the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded workforce. The authors use a relevant labor market perspective to more directly understand what the NIH can influence in terms of enhancing diversity through NIH policies.

Method

Using the relevant labor market (defined as persons with advanced degrees working as biomedical scientists in the United States) as the conceptual framework, and informed by accepted economic principles, the authors used the American Community Survey and NIH administrative data to calculate representation ratios of the NIH-funded biomedical workforce from 2008 to 2012 by race, ethnicity, sex, and citizenship status, and compared this against the pool of characteristic individuals in the potential labor market.

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SUBMITTER: Heggeness ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5502106 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature