The urgency of restructuring the landscape of behavioral medicine: Commentary from early-career diversity institute scholars.
Transl Behav Med
; 14(3): 149-155, 2024 02 23.
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| ID: mdl-37897410
Existing structural and systemic barriers in academia have continued for decades, and resulted in a lack of diversity in leadership positions, inequitable workloads for underrepresented gender and racial/ethnic groups, and increasing issues with retention of faculty, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. We outline the need for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in academia, and that it will involve changes to the existing structures within universities. This is especially important as we want our higher education workforce to reflect our increasingly diverse society in its own diversity, but current policies and structures do not promote diversity in our institutions and in our research. Our rationale for restructuring academic systems to promote DEI also stems from a need for behavioral medicine and research more broadly to recognize and challenge the biases and practices that sustain inequity in our researchfrom the questions we ask, the participants we include (and exclude), and the ways in which the system creates unnecessary barriers for researchers who try to mitigate or address these biases in our work. We recommend implementing strategies for institutional progress that benefit diverse early-career faculty including mentoring programs, developing funding opportunities, changing faculty evaluation practices, and creating equitable workloads.
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MEDLINE
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Medicina do Comportamento
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Female
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Humans
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2024
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