The University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) invites you to join the movement to support and cultivate a more diverse global health workforce and a diverse scientific and academic community.
Diversify the Global Health Workforce by Increasing Awareness of Resources
The UC Global Health Institute is committed to diversifying the global health workforce by launching our first campaign to increase awareness of the National Institutes of Health Diversity Supplements, which is an underutilized resource. Of the thousands of eligible parent grants across the UC system, the number of successfully awarded supplements remain in the double digits. Since local is global, we aim to increase the submission of NIH Diversity supplements for all disciplines across UCs.
UCGHI will complement existing efforts to increase successful submissions of these diversity supplements by collaborating with SF BUILD and UCI BUILD. UCGHI aims to double the submission of NIH diversity supplements across UC by January 2022.
The University of California Can Do Better
In terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the University of California can do better. The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) recently published report “Disrupting the Status Quo” which documents the need for the University of California to do better to eliminate barriers to achieve full inclusion of racially and ethnically diverse faculty. In other words, creating an environment that enables under represented individuals to thrive at UC.
UCGHI is committed to working in collaboration with UCOP to better integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion for under represented faculty, staff, and students to succeed.
Past NIH Diversity Supplement Webinars
This webinar amplifies the experiences of three successful NIH Diversity Supplement recipients from UC Irvine, UCSF, and UC Merced.
Panelists:
- Candice Taylor Lucas, MD, MPH
- Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
- John Gonzales, MD
- Associate Professor, Uveitis Fellowship Program Director, F.I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco
- Clarissa J. Nobile, PhD
- Kamangar Family Chair in Biological Sciences and Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Merced
Moderators:
- Rob Rivers, PhD
- Program Director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- Tom Coates, PhD
- UCGHI Director
- Sun Cotter, MPH
- UCGHI Deputy Director
- Presentation Slides by Rob Rivers, Ph.D., Program Director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- List of NIH Diversity Supplement Resources
- Q&A from Webinar
Featured Panelists:
Rob Rivers, Ph.D., is a program director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), a part of the National Institutes of Health. He leads programs that help ensure the biomedical research workforce reflects the diversity of the population and addresses all health concerns. Rob started and currently runs the international non-profit organization Umbrella Initiatives Foundation that provides improved educational opportunities to children living in poverty in Peru and Bolivia (www.umbrellainitiatives.org). He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Cambridge and his B.S. degree in chemistry from Kentucky State University. @robclayriver
Geetha Bansal, PhD is the program officer responsible for Fogarty’s HIV Research Training Program. Bansal, has worked in the Division of AIDS Research at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, she was also the associate dean for research and associate professor at Tulane University.
Shakira Nelson, PhD, MPH earned her PhD from Penn State University in 2013, focusing in Immunology and Infectious Diseases. After completing her MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2014, as a Cancer Prevention Fellow, she returned to NCI and worked with Dr. Demetrius Albanes in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch. Her projects touched upon various topics including examining associations in prostate cancer, metabolomics, and health disparities. Shakira is a Program Director at National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), working in the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity. Here Shakira manages portfolios of various training and research grant programs, helping to achieve the mission and vision of NIGMS and the NIH.