{"id":1032,"date":"2020-06-10T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:30:48","slug":"what-can-we-do-to-combat-anti-black-racism-in-the-biomedical-research-enterprise-nigms-feedback-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/what-can-we-do-to-combat-anti-black-racism-in-the-biomedical-research-enterprise-nigms-feedback-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Do to Combat Anti-Black Racism in the Biomedical Research Enterprise?\u2014NIGMS Feedback Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/image-38.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1041\" width=\"865\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/image-38.png 566w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/image-38-300x51.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/loop.nigms.nih.gov\/author\/dr-jon-lorsch\/\">Dr. Jon Lorsch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/loop.nigms.nih.gov\/author\/dr-kenneth-gibbs\/\">Dr. Kenneth Gibbs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/loop.nigms.nih.gov\/author\/dr-alison-gammie\/\">Dr. Alison Gammie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, in addition to the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on African Americans, are wrenching reminders of the many harms that societal racism, inequality, and injustice inflict on the Black community. These injustices are rooted in centuries of oppression\u2014including slavery and Jim Crow, redlining, school segregation, and mass incarceration\u2014that continue to influence American life, including the biomedical research enterprise. Despite leading an NIH Institute whose mission includes building a diverse scientific workforce, at NIGMS we\u2019ve struggled with what an adequate response to this moment would be, knowing that the systems that mediate the distinct and disparate burdens Black students, postdocs, and scientists face are complex and often aren\u2019t easily moved with the urgency that they demand. With that in mind, below we share thoughts on what each of us who is in the majority or in a position of power can do to help break the cycles of racial disparities that are woven into the fabric of the biomedical research enterprise and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2019\/04\/lack-of-black-doctoral-students\/587413\/\">limit opportunities&nbsp;<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/333\/6045\/1015.full\">Black scientists&nbsp;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/loop.nigms.nih.gov\/2020\/06\/what-can-we-do-to-combat-anti-black-racism-in-the-biomedical-research-enterprise\/\">https:\/\/loop.nigms.nih.gov\/2020\/06\/what-can-we-do-to-combat-anti-black-racism-in-the-biomedical-research-enterprise\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Jon Lorsch, Dr. Kenneth Gibbs, and Dr. Alison Gammie The recent deaths of George &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}