Dr. Alison Gammie, the former Director of Training in Workforce Development and Diversity at NIH, was proud of the strides in DEI at NIH, but that wasn’t enough. In 2018, long before the BLM riots of 2020catapulted DEI into every fabric of our government, she requested input on strategies to “enhance postdoctoral career transitions to promote faculty diversity, specifically in research-intensive institutions.”

This move makes sense for Gammie, who was Director of Diversity Programs and Graduate Recruiting at Princeton University before coming to NIH.

NIH should not be involved in injecting DEI into the government, much less into our universities. Dr. Gammie was pioneering this propaganda before it was in the mainstream.

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In a presentation on “Widening the Pipeline: Inclusive Teaching for a Diverse Scientific Workforce” at Princeton University, Dr. Alison Gammie lamented the lack of women in research and the need for more oversight to change that.

If you look at the representation of women… in these feeder labs, women are significantly underrepresented in these labs so it explains potentially part of the problem… There’s no oversight in post-doc hires. It’s sort of calling up, who do you know. You may have some form of application process but its left up to the individual principal investigator. There’s no university oversight about fairness and other issues. So I think this is one area we really need to look at and there should be more accountability for hires… (18:20)

Instead of focusing on the ratios of men to women, researchers should be focused on the best candidates to achieve the desired outcome. The oversight needed is where NIH is placing their priorities in research.

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