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Dear HRA Member or Potential Member! Thank you for your interest in the benefits of HRA membership. Below is a very detailed description of the perks of HRA membership - a self-guided tour if you will. But I am happy to walk you and/or other members of your team through all the perks that come with HRA membership. If you want to schedule a zoom call with me to take a “virtual tour” of HRA Activities through the lens of www.HealthRA.org please send an email to Maryrose[at]HealthRA[dot]org. Otherwise, read on for details enumerating the benefits of membership....
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The session will focus on racial disparities and opportunities to foster and support diversity, equity, and inclusiveness within the research workforce, specifically at the postdoc and early career faculty level. Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may lack the social structures and networks to sustain career development in research, so the role of professional communities and mentorship relationships may be even more important. Can foundations work with academic institutions, federal funders, and other stakeholders to address this through recruitment, retention, mentorship, and networking strategies? What are the key parameters and metrics of success to consider? Moderator Gerard Honig, PhD Associate Director of...
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As we all have experienced, 2020 was the year of hosting virtual events. Have you spent hours researching the how-to’s of managing virtual meetings? This session will discuss the nuts and bolts of organizing and facilitating online events and will showcase studies of best practices in hosting your event. Dr. Arne Bakker will highlight what has worked well, how to encourage a culture of open communication and meaningful participation with your audience, and how to select the most appropriate platform for your event. In addition to Dr. Bakker, a panel of HRA members will share stories of how they have...
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On Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, the HRA Grants Administration Working Group hosted a Zoom webinar around bias in peer review and potential interventions for bias reduction. With diversity and equity being at the forefront of national discussion, ensuring a fair and equitable peer review process is more important and timely now than ever. Speakers and Webinar Notes: Eileen Melnick, Director of Grants & Awards, Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation; Co-Chair, Grants Administration Working Group Eileen discussed Conquer Cancer’s initial steps to reduce bias and some easy-to-implement approaches. Conquer Cancer has strategized three actions to reduce bias in peer review, but right...
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The Grants Program Analysis Working Group recently held its bimonthly call to discuss the status of current projects and upcoming goals. We had a very productive call, and wanted to take a moment to share with you a brief recap, for your interest (and to encourage you to get involved, if you like any of the topics noted below!) Here are few highlights from the call: Tools Subgroup Update: The Tools Subgroup co-chairs, Heather Calderone and Hongxia Hu, are working to create a toolkit for the membership that will detail available tools and how they can best be implemented to...
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We live in a world of problems so complex that they cannot be effectively addressed by any one organization or even by any one sector. There is a growing understanding among social, private, and public sector leaders that lasting change and the resolution of these systemic issues is going to require effective collaboration across silos, across organizations, and across sectors. Unfortunately, realizing the grand potential of collaboration is notoriously difficult in the real world. Historically, HRA members have forged collaborations organically through informal networking. However, the potential for developing even more impactful collaborations remains significant. To this end, the Health...
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The Grants Program Analysis Working Group hosted a very productive call on November 29. We’d like to provide you with a few highlights from the call, to keep you updated on what the group is up to. We also encourage anyone interested in this group to join us! If you are interested in joining, please just let one of us, or Annette, know! On the most recent call, we heard from each of the subgroups about their activities: The Survey-based evaluation group is working very hard to collect sample surveys and additional information to assist them in building a comprehensive...
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The theme of the October 2018 Regional Members Meeting (hosted by HHMI) was Diversity and Inclusion. After an active networking breakfast, Dr, Hannah Valantine, NIH’s first Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, kicked off the meeting. Dr. Valantine presented compelling data as to why diversity matters. For instance, her data showed that papers written by a diverse group received more citations and published in journals with higher impact factors, demonstrating that diversity improves the quality of science. Dr. Valantine described NIH’s various efforts such as the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative, the National Research Mentoring Network, and the...
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HRA’s Exploring the Value of “Open” (EVO) Program As part of the EVO program, we are collecting HRA members' policies to encourage or require various aspect of open science such as data sharing, publishing open access, or using preprints. Please add your policies...
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Evidence has shown that a diverse healthcare workforce not only improves patient care outcomes, it also allows organizations to be more productive, creative and innovative. Still, minorities face slower promotion rates and are significantly less represented in leadership and academic career positions. At the Spring 2018 Health Research Alliance Members Meeting in New York, a session devoted to discussing strategies for increasing diversity in the workforce raised several key factors about the challenges and opportunities of diversity. Ensuring future competitiveness of U.S. science and technology According to Anne Kaatz, Director of Computational Sciences at the Center for Women’s Health Research...
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