Hannah A. Valantine

At the Scientific Workforce Diversity Office (SWD), our mission has always been driven by the fundamental belief that a diverse workforce has the potential to spur scientific innovation, creativity, and productivit

In 2014, I became NIH’s first Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity – with three data points seared in my mind:

Recently my office partnered with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to host a webinar on organizational approache

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." – Henry Ford

As NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, my main goal is to promote scientific workforce diversity as a means to institutional excellence as I have described in previous blogs.

Few 20th century achievements portend more promise than the digitalization of biology, made possible by the Human Genome Project and a whirlwind of subsequent advances.

As I’ve noted in previous blogs and elsewhere, I see enhancing workforce diversity as an opportunity

In my role as NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, every week I encounter hundreds of individuals and groups in the massive enterprise that is biomedical research.

Chances are, if you aren’t related to a scientist, or have never known one personally, you probably wouldn’t imagine yourself as one. Psychologists call this a lack of science identity.

NIH’s mission is turning discovery into health. That discovery gets done by people—creative scientists of all types all across the nation.