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About the Program HRA’s ongoing Strategic Planning process surfaced the need to provide professional development resources and opportunities to staff of HRA member organizations. HRA’s new Professional Development Program is designed to address that need. This program will offer workshops as well as identify and create other resources to achieve these goals. Mission To increase organizational and philanthropic sector capacity by enhancing the effectiveness of staff of HRA member organizations. Goals To help enhance professional skills not generally available through other avenues, that will enable staff of HRA member organizations to be more effective in their...
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The session will focus on racial disparities and opportunities to foster and support diversity, equity, and inclusiveness within the research workforce, specifically at the postdoc and early career faculty level. Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may lack the social structures and networks to sustain career development in research, so the role of professional communities and mentorship relationships may be even more important. Can foundations work with academic institutions, federal funders, and other stakeholders to address this through recruitment, retention, mentorship, and networking strategies? What are the key parameters and metrics of success to consider? Moderator Gerard Honig, PhD Associate Director of...
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A diverse healthcare workforce not only improves patient care outcomes, it also allows organizations to be more productive, creative, and innovative. Still, not being part of the dominant culture adversely impacts researchers’ promotion rates, grant funding attainment, mentorship opportunities, and representation leadership positions. In addition, troubling health disparities result from socioeconomic inequity, bias, and structural racism. HRA created the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Community to provide a collaborative space for members to (1) identify barriers to biomedical researchers’ full participation in discovery that can be addressed by member organizations and ways to advance research that improves the health of...
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The theme of the October 2018 Regional Members Meeting (hosted by HHMI) was Diversity and Inclusion. After an active networking breakfast, Dr, Hannah Valantine, NIH’s first Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, kicked off the meeting. Dr. Valantine presented compelling data as to why diversity matters. For instance, her data showed that papers written by a diverse group received more citations and published in journals with higher impact factors, demonstrating that diversity improves the quality of science. Dr. Valantine described NIH’s various efforts such as the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative, the National Research Mentoring Network, and the...
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HRA’s Exploring the Value of “Open” (EVO) Program As part of the EVO program, we are collecting HRA members' policies to encourage or require various aspect of open science such as data sharing, publishing open access, or using preprints. Please add your policies...
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Evidence has shown that a diverse healthcare workforce not only improves patient care outcomes, it also allows organizations to be more productive, creative and innovative. Still, minorities face slower promotion rates and are significantly less represented in leadership and academic career positions. At the Spring 2018 Health Research Alliance Members Meeting in New York, a session devoted to discussing strategies for increasing diversity in the workforce raised several key factors about the challenges and opportunities of diversity. Ensuring future competitiveness of U.S. science and technology According to Anne Kaatz, Director of Computational Sciences at the Center for Women’s Health Research...
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HRA Members Meeting Spring 2018 Evidence suggests that an increased diversity not only improves patient care outcomes, but makes groups also more productive, creative and innovative. Still, minorities face slower promotion rates and are significantly less represented in leadership and academic career positions. At the Spring 2018 Health Research Alliance Members Meeting in New York, a session devoted to discussing strategies for increasing diversity in the workforce raised several key factors about the challenges and opportunities of diversity. Ensuring future competitiveness of U.S. science and technology According to Anne Kaatz, Director of Computational Sciences at the Center for Women’s Health...
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The Research Workforce and Early Career Development Community is committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, motivated, and healthy research workforce. Strategies we implement include: Understanding the needs of Early Career Investigators (ECIs), and how HRA and HRA members can help address those needs Identifying and disseminating existing policies and practices that are successful at supporting the development of early career investigators Acknowledging barriers to advancement and identifying or developing strategies that can lower those barriers Learn from existing grant programs of HRA members and others that foster careers of early career investigators The career path to becoming an independent research...
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One of the issues that led to the formation of the Health Research Alliance many years ago was defining “best practices” in grants management. Challenges such as electronic grant applications, tracking alumni, increasing diversity, and implementing effective peer review spurred a group of funders to share challenges and experiences in attempts to solve some of the more intractable problems funders faced. Partnering in this way was so valuable to these organizations, they worked together to form the alliance that eventually became the HRA. HRA formed the Grants Administration Working Group to share attempts at addressing ongoing challenges in grantmaking. Discussions have...
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