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Sign Up for Updates UNITE About Venn Diagram: People Focused and Data Driven in the center
 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 unite-progress-report-cover-image-cropped-20240207.jpg UNITE Progress Report cover image
 UNITE Progress Report This inaugural report highlights select accomplishments associated with UNITE’s four focus areas, centering on UNITE’s initial impact on health disparities and minority health research funding, the external biomedical and behavioral workforce, and NIH staff. The report also describes UNITE’s genesis and their plans for expanding UNITE’s 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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 Diversity Funding Opportunities Funding opportunities across NIH that are related to diversity.
 UNITE’s Four Focus Areas  Header for UNITE Focus Area 1: Elevating Health Disparities and Minority Health Research Across Institutes and Centers
 Focus Area 1 ensures that ICs prioritize health disparities and minority health research (HD/MH) across clinical trials and human subject research. Read More... Header for UNITE Focus Area 2: Promoting Equity in the NIH-Supported Biomedical Research Ecosystem
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  Read More... UNITE’S Five Committees  A chart listing the roles of each of the five UNITE committees. U Committee: Understand stakeholder experiences through listening and learning. N Committee: Facilitate and develop new research on HD/MH. I Committee: Improve the NIH culture and structure for equity, inclusion, and excellence. T Committee: Foster transparency, communication, and accountability with internal and external stakeholders. E Committee: Change policy, culture, and structure to promote diversity in the extramural research ecosystem.
 UNITE Leadership, Program Support, and Staff Volunteers UNITE Co-Chairs **Marie A. Bernard, M.D.**
					NIH Office of the Director/Chief Officer for
					Scientific Workforce Diversity **Noni Byrnes, Ph.D.**
					NIH Center for Scientific Review
 **Alfred Johnson, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of the Director/Office of Management Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S Ph.D.
 UNITE Program Support **Brittany Chao, Ph.D.**
				NIH Office of the Director **Tammy Reddick Lockett​**
				NIH Office of the Director
 U Committee Members **Leah Miller**— Co-Chair
					National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute **Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D.**— Co-Chair
					National Institute of Mental Health **Mia Rochelle Lowden, Ph.D.** — Co-Chair
					National Institute of Nursing Research **Anna Amar, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of the Director **Irene Avila, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of the Director **Tanya Chakraborty, M.S.**
					NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion **Dexter Collins, M.P.A.**
					Fogarty International Center **Joanna Goldfarb**
					National Library of Medicine **Jamie Gulin, M.P.H.**
					National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute **Patricia Haggerty, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of Dietary Supplements **John Haller, Ph.D.**
					National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute **Shadab Fatima Hussain, Ph.D.**
					National Cancer Institute **Maura Landers**
					National Institute of Mental Health
 **Karen Lee, M.D., M.P.H.**
					Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development **Flair Lindsey**
					National Institute on Drug Abuse **Leslie Littlejohn**
					National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases **Laura Long, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of the Director **Troy Muhammad, Ed.D., M.S.**
					National Cancer Institute **Cristina Nigro, Ph.D., M.S.**
					National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke **Karen Perkins, M.Ed.**
					NIH Clinical Center **Elizabeth Sekine**
					National Institute on Mental Health **Denesha Simmons**
					National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health **Kelly Ten Hagen, Ph.D.**
					National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research **Vidya Vedham, Ph.D.**
					National Cancer Institute **Susan Wetherby**
					National Institute of Mental Health
 N Committee Members **Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D.** — Co-Chair
					National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities **Xinzhi Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.E., F.R.S.N.**— Co-Chair
					National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute **Kathy Etz, Ph.D.** — Co-Chair
					National Institute on Drug Abuse **Hope Mabry** — Staff Support
					National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities **Jennifer Alvidrez, Ph.D**
					Office of Disease Prevention **Vence Bonham, J.D.**
					National Human Genome Research Institute **Christine Borba, Ph.D, M.P.H**
					National Institute of Mental Health **Christine Cutillo**
					National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences **Janine Clayton, M.D.**
					NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health **Sharon Jackson, M.D.**
					National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research **Tilda Farhart, Ph.D, M.P.H**
					National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
 **Vanessa Marshall, Ph.D.**
					National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities **Nathan Moore, Ph.D.**
					National Institute of General Medical Sciences **Jenna Norton**
					National Institute of General Medical Sciences **Parisa Parsafar**
					Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development **Janet Sanchez**
					NIH Office of the Director **Tiffany Wallace**
					National Institute of Cancer **Shannon Zenk, Ph.D., M.P.H, R.N.**
					National Institute of Nursing Research
 I Committee Members **Laura Koehly, Ph.D.**— Co-Chair
					National Human Genome Research Institute **Camille Hoover, M.S.W.**— Co-Chair
					National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases **Kevin Williams, J.D.** — Co-Chair
					NIH Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion **Yvonne Payne**— Staff Support
					NIH Office of the Director **Leia Butler**
					NIH Office of the Director **Shauna Clark, Ph.D.**
					National Cancer Institute **Charles Egwuagu, M.P.H., Ph.D.**
					National Eye Institute **Courtney Fitzhugh, M.D.**
					National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute **Kendall Hill**
					National Cancer Institute
 **Shawn Lewis**
					National Institute of Nursing Research **Joe Martin**
					NIH Office of the Director **Darryl Murray, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of the Director **Beth Perry**
					National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences **Brenda Robles**
					NIH Clinical Center **Victoria Rucker**
					National Library of Medicine **Shaun Sims**
					National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
 T Committee Members **Mohammed Aiyegbo, Ph.D.**— Co-Chair
					National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases **John Burklow** — Co-Chair
					NIH Office of the Director **Samantha Calabrese**— Co-Chair
					Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development **Eric Refsland, Ph.D.**— Stand-in Co-Chair
					National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases **Lauren Brodd**
					NIH Office of the Director **Claudia Figueroa-Romero**— Staff Support
					National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke **Jessica Forbes**— Staff Support
					National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
 **Paule Joseph, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of Intramural Research ****Traci M. Murray, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., NHDP-BC, CPH****
					National Institute on Drug Abuse **Cathy Rowe**
					National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders **Eric Sid, M.D.**
					National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences **Wayne Wang, Ph.D.**
					National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
 E Committee Members **Ericka Boone, Ph.D.** — Co-Chair
					NIH Office of Extramural Research **Jon Lorsch, Ph.D.** — Co-Chair
					National Institute of General Medical Sciences **Anna E. Ordóñez, M.D.** — Co-Chair
					National Institute of Mental Health **Beverly Hines** — Staff Support
					National Institute of General Medical Sciences **Eddie Billingslea, Ph.D.**
					NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health **Tiffany Calvert, M.Ed.**
					National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering **Rena D’Souza, M.S., D.D.S., Ph.D.**
					National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research **Zeynep Erim, Ph.D.**
					National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering **Leonardo Garzon-Velez**
					Fogarty International Center
 **Leah Hubbard, Ph.D.**
					National Cancer Institute **Patricia Jones, M.S., M.P.H., Dr.PH.**
					National Institute on Aging **Vonda Smith, Ph.D.**
					Center for Scientific Review **James Washington, M.S., Ph.D.**
					National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke **Maryam Zaringhalam, Ph.D.**
					National Library of Medicine
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