TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges and Initiatives in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cancer Molecular Imaging
AU - Daldrup-Link, Heike E.
AU - Esposito, Giuseppe
AU - Bhujwalla, Zaver M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Daldrup-Link, Esposito and Bhujwalla.
PY - 2021/4/9
Y1 - 2021/4/9
N2 - A diverse biomedical workforce is essential to achieve excellence in patient care, clinical translational, and basic research. Diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges in cancer molecular represent a combination of the challenges facing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field, and challenges in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. Although there is a growing awareness of conscious and unconscious bias that negatively affect the cancer imaging world, many challenges remain such as overcoming barriers to entry into the pipeline, avoiding program dropout, and providing long-term career prospect. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant setback and further highlighted problems faced by women and underrepresented minorities. In this perspective, we have identified some of the challenges faced and highlighted ongoing and future initiatives to address these challenges.
AB - A diverse biomedical workforce is essential to achieve excellence in patient care, clinical translational, and basic research. Diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges in cancer molecular represent a combination of the challenges facing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field, and challenges in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. Although there is a growing awareness of conscious and unconscious bias that negatively affect the cancer imaging world, many challenges remain such as overcoming barriers to entry into the pipeline, avoiding program dropout, and providing long-term career prospect. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant setback and further highlighted problems faced by women and underrepresented minorities. In this perspective, we have identified some of the challenges faced and highlighted ongoing and future initiatives to address these challenges.
KW - STEM - science technology engineering mathematics
KW - cancer molecular imaging
KW - diversity & inclusion
KW - equity
KW - radiology
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U2 - 10.3389/fonc.2021.638692
DO - 10.3389/fonc.2021.638692
M3 - Article
C2 - 33898312
AN - SCOPUS:85104591674
SN - 2234-943X
VL - 11
JO - Frontiers in Oncology
JF - Frontiers in Oncology
M1 - 638692
ER -