UNITE

About

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UNITE acts as a think tank to promote equity, generate bold ideas, and catalyze new actions. Collectively, it identifies and addresses any structural racism that may exist within the NIH and throughout the biomedical and behavioral workforce. UNITE facilitates activities to identify opportunities, make recommendations, and develop and implement strategies to spur widescale, systematic change.

The UNITE initiative focuses on three primary domains—health disparities/minority health research (HD/MH), internal NIH workforce, and external biomedical and behavioral research workforce—that intersect and enable greater transparency, accountability, and communications across NIH and the biomedical and behavioral research community. UNITE’s four focus areas underwritten by data on this page reflect the three key domains in the Venn diagram.

UNITE At a Glance

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2023-2024 UNITE Progress Report

The latest progress report highlights UNITE's accomplishments since the 2022 inaugural report. It outlines efforts associated with UNITE's four focus areas, focusing on UNITE's impact on health inequities and minority health research funding, the external biomedical and behavioral workforce, and NIH staff. Additionally, this update addresses a transition in leadership for the next phase of UNITE and their plans for continuing UNITE's critical efforts.

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UNITE Co-Chair’s Corner

Monthly updates from UNITE’s co-chairs and committee leadership.

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Advisory Committee Updates

UNITE priorities and updates shared during the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) meetings.

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UNITE-Related Funding Opportunities

How UNITE helps NIH to provide research funding for greater innovation.

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Inclusiveness is Powerful

NIH diversified imagery helps reflect rich diversity of the NIH workforce.

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Events

UNITE presents the latest data and ideas on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the biomedical workforce and in research.

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Funding opportunities across NIH that are related to diversity.

UNITE’s Four Focus Areas

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Focus Area 1 ensures that ICs prioritize health disparities and minority health research (HD/MH) across clinical trials and human subject research.

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As a result of ideas generated by UNITE, initiatives in this focus area were developed to promote diversity and inclusion in the NIH extramural research ecosystem.

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Efforts in Focus Area 3 concentrate on enhancing equity within the NIH internal workforce, role modeling expectations of the external biomedical system.

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Greater data transparency and availability enhances stakeholder efforts to address structural racism and discrimination.

UNITE’S Five Committees

Five UNITE committees with more than 80 NIH staff volunteers concentrate on catalyzing change and enacting real solutions to foster equity for all. Each committee has a unique mission, while working collaboratively to develop methods that enhance equity across the scientific enterprise.