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Find NIH director’s statements, blogs, related articles, and other references about NIH’s continuing commitment to promoting meaningful and sustainable culture change.
PBS News Hour: How NIH plans
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NIH Director's Statements
- Congress strengthens NIH’s ability to address harassment in NIH-funded activities (May 8, 2022)
- Combating sexual harassment (June 11, 2020)
- Creating meaningful reforms to end sexual harassment in science (December 12, 2019)
- Letter on Sexual Harassment from NIH Leadership to Signing Officials at NIH Applicant and Awardee Organizations: Important Notice- (140 KB)
- Update on NIH's efforts to address sexual harassment in science (February 28, 2019)
- Changing the Culture of Science to End Sexual Harassment (September 17, 2018)
- Addtional Information on Sexual Harassment Policy at NIH (September 19, 2018)
NIH Open Mike Blogs and All About Grants Podcasts
- How Implementing a 2022 Law is Helping Us Ensure Safe and Respectful Workplaces (March 13, 2024)
- Ensuring Safe and Respectful Workplaces (podcast) (December 21, 2023)
- Case Study in Research Integrity – Banned From Supervising, Can’t Go in Lab, but No Impact on NIH Funded Research? (July 17, 2023)
- Case Study in Research Integrity: You Can Disagree, Without Being Disagreeable (September 14, 2022)
- Congress Strengthens NIH’s Ability To Address Harassment in NIH-funded Activities (May 10, 2022)
- An Update on Implementing ACD Recommendations on Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment (June 29, 2021)
- How We Handle Allegations of Sexual Harassment (June 24, 2020)
- New Steps to Help Ensure Safe Work Environments for NIH-Supported Research (June 2020)
- How to Notify NIH about a Concern that Sexual Harassment is Affecting an NIH-Funded Activity at a Grantee Institution (June 2019)
- Update on NIH's Efforts to Address Sexual Harassment in Science (February 2019)
- New Application Requirements for Institutional Training Grants: Letter of Institutional Commitment to Harassment and Discrimination Protections (November 9, 2018)
- NIH Policies to Address Sexual and Gender Harassment in NIH-supported Extramural Research (September 2018)
Advisory Council to the NIH Director Reports and Updates
- Advisory Committee to the Director Report: Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment (December 2019)
- Executive Summary (268 KB)
- Presentation (1.2 MB)
- Final Report (1.2 MB)
- Advisory Committee to the Director presentation video: NIH Anti-Harassment Actions Lawrence Tabak, NIH Deputy Director (June 2018 - see 4 hours and 34 minutes in the recording)