Year: 2018
Type: editorial
Abstract: In this perspective, we describe our experience as women of color scientists from diverse backgrounds and similar struggles embarking upon the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-funded program called PRIDE (Programs to Increase Diversity among Underrepresented Minorities Engaged in Health-Related Research). Under the leadership of our mentor and friend, Betty Pace, MD, a renowned and successful African American physician-scientist, the PRIDE Program was designed to address the difficulties experienced by junior-level minority investigators in establishing independent research programs and negotiating tenure and full professor status at academic institutions. The strength of PRIDE's innovative formula was pairing us with external senior mentors and, importantly, allowing us to serve as peer mentors to each other. We believe this "Sister's Keeper" paradigm is one solution for women to overcome their limitations and extend understandings and best practices worldwide for science, medicine, and global health.
Source: Ethnicity & Disease
DOI: 10.18865/ed.28.4.575
Authors: Athena Starlard-Davenport, Alisa Rich, Titilope Fasipe, Eboni I. Lance, Kehinde Adekole, Ariadna Forray, Mesia Steed, Ashley Fitzgerald, Scharri Walker, Betty S. Pace
Institutions: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Northwestern University, Yale University, Winston-Salem State University, Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Tougaloo College, Augusta University
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2897035442