National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers. Meeting Proceedings

摘要

In early 2007, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), appointed the NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers to consider the recommendations from the National Academies report, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, give attention to the NIH intramural community and the concerns of intramural women scientists; consider the broader context of girls and women in science; and provide special attention to issues of barriers, minority women scientists, and mentoring. The National Academies report concluded that eliminating gender bias in academia would require an immediate overarching reform, including decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, Federal funding agencies, foundations, Government agencies, and Congress. Through the Working Group, NIH aims to develop innovative strategies and tangible solutions to promote the advancement of women both within the NIH intramural community and throughout the extramural research community. In November 2007, the NIH Working Group, through the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) convened the National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers.