The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is taking a hard look at what it’s doing and how it can be done differently so as to no longer perpetuate the status quo.
According to NIH Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research William T. Riley, PhD:
“…there has been research for as long as there has been an Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the NIH (25 years) showing that implicit bias influences how we make various judgments and decisions based on race even though we may not be fully aware that we are. But our problems with racism extend far beyond our explicit or implicit prejudices…Structural racism influences health.” View the blog post.