Blog post from NIH COSWD Marie Bernard: Research Project Grant Funding Rates and Principal Investigator Race and Ethnicity

NIH has long collected self-designated demographic information on scientists designated as Principal Investigators (PIs) or Key Personnel and used this information to gain insights into the NIH-supported biomedical research workforce. 

Just over 10 years ago, Ginther and colleagues used these data to publish a seminal paper that showed that Black/African American PIs were less likely than whites to receive funding on R01 applications. Since that publication, NIH embarked on efforts to enhance diversity of the biomedical research workforce; these efforts include establishing the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, the Diversity Program Consortium as well as numerous other trainee-focused interventions to enhance scientific workforce diversity.

Read more at the COSWD blog.