'When she rises, we all rise': a crowdsourcing challenge to increase women's participation in an infectious diseases research fellowship.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women are under-represented in many mid-career infectious diseases research fellowships, including a TDR fellowship for low- and middle-income country (LMIC) researchers. TDR solicited creative ideas as part of a challenge contest to increase the number of women fellowship applicants. The purpose of this study is to examine themes from submitted ideas and the impact of implementing the top three ideas on the number of women applicants.

Methods

We solicited ideas for modifying the TDR fellowship using a crowdsourcing challenge. Then we used a mixed methods approach to evaluate texts submitted in response to the challenge. The qualitative analysis identified themes from eligible submissions. The quantitative analysis examined the mean score (1-10 scale) assigned to

SUBMITTER: Liu E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7526393 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature