Scientific Workforce Diversity:Opportunity for Enhancing Research Excellence
Hannah Valantine, MD—National Institutes of Health
Diversity is known to benefit learning, teamwork, and productivity, yet large sectors of the U.S. population are not members of the biomedical research engine of innovation. Dr. Hannah Valantine, recently appointed the NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, will describe NIH’s research-based, integrated set of approaches and programs that address diversity as a scientific issue ripe for exploration and new opportunity.