Workshop on Recruitment and Retention of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans in Scientific Research Careers Relevant to Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders: Your Responses and Advice

Your Responses and Advice...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is strongly committed to increasing the number of minority individuals who receive research training and become independent research scientists in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Recruitment of underrepresented minorities in training programs has been a long-standing policy of the NHLBI.

The NHLBI is offering you the opportunity to share your thoughts, opinions, and suggestions about the Workshop Report on "Recruitment and Retention of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans in Scientific Research Careers Relevant to Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders." Your responses may be sent through the online form (below) or by letter, email, or fax to the appropriate address, email address, or fax number listed below.

"Recruitment" refers to outreach and networking activities that bring minorities into science and research at early and middle stages in their education and careers. Barriers to successful recruitment of minorities include:

"Retention" refers to successful mentoring, training, and promoting of minority scientific researchers who go on to become established researchers with funding from the NIH or other sources. Barriers to successful retention of minorities include:

Cultural, ethnic, and economic issues that need to be addressed in recruitment and retention of minority individuals in scientific research careers include:

The NHLBI can take specific actions to address these issues (in item 3 above) such as:

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