Enhancing grant-writing expertise in BUILD institutions: Building infrastructure leading to diversity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The lack of race/ethnic and gender diversity in grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a persistent challenge related to career advancement and the quality and relevance of health research. We describe pilot programs at nine institutions supported by the NIH-sponsored Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program aimed at increasing diversity in biomedical research.

Methods

We collected data from the 2016-2017 Higher Education Research Institute survey of faculty and NIH progress reports for the first four years of the program (2015-2018). We then conducted descriptive analyses of data from the nine BUILD institutions that had collected data and evaluated which activities were associated with research productivity. We used Poiss

SUBMITTER: Hiatt RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9499285 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature