Increasing the Diversity of the Cancer Research Workforce

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Latinos and African Americans make up nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population.

Yet, in 2005, they comprised only 3.2 percent of funded principal investigators on National Institutes of Health (NIH) research project grants and 5.5 percent of research trainees supported by NIH training grants.

A concerted move is under way to change that, particularly at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where several programs are focused on increasing the diversity of the cancer research workforce.

Read more about this effort here.

By The Numbers By The Numbers

25.1

percent

of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage

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