There are several sources that can be used to initiate a search for early-career scientific candidates. Many institutions and recruiters already employ various resources including the following:
- MinorityPostdoc.org
- Professional societies’ training and career development programs
- National Hispanic Medical Association
- Society for Neuroscience Neuroscience Scholars Program
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
- National Medical Association
- Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health
- Institutional employee resource groups (sometimes called affinity groups)
- Recipients of NIH Diversity Supplement awards or other NIH diversity-associated awards
- The free, publicly accessible NIH RePORTER database enables searches of early-career scientists who have received career-development awards (such as K or F awards). You can identify grant recipients by field, year of award, and type of grant to build a dataset of current early-career scientists in a field of interest.