Demographic composition of National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program principal investigators, scholars, and trainees

Mercedes Rubio; Heather L Baker; Jamie Mihoko Doyle

doi:10.1017/cts.2022.491

Demographic composition of National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program principal investigators, scholars, and trainees

J Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Nov 9;7(1):e19. doi: 10.1017/cts.2022.491. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Mercedes Rubio¹, Heather L Baker², Jamie Mihoko Doyle²

Affiliations

¹ National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Abstract

Little has been published on the demographic composition of the clinical and translational science research workforce within the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program despite the well-documented need for greater diversity in the biomedical research workforce. Analyses of workforce demographic reveal that women and members of underrepresented groups remain persistently underrepresented in the CTSA hub and training components principal investigators. In contrast, in the CTSA Program career development and training programs, females have greater representation as participants, and non-Whites were better represented in training programs.

Keywords: CTSA; CTSA KL2 scholars; CTSA TL1 trainees; CTSA hub and training components principal investigators; diversity; equity and inclusion; gender; race and ethnicity.