Скачать или смотреть Updates from the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office

Speaker: Karen L. Parker, Ph.D., M.S.W. , Director of the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office, NIH

Objectives:
1) Describe the process for applying for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants
2) Articulate the role of the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office
3) Describe the goals and objectives of the NIH Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-being of Sexual & Gender Minorities, Fiscal Years 2021-2025

Karen L. Parker currently serves as Director of the Sexual & GenderMinority Research Office (SGMRO) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Dr. Parker was instrumental in the formation of the office in fall of 2015 andwas appointed Director in June 2016. Dr. Parker is also a member of the NIHAnti-Harassment Steering Committee and serves as the co-chair of the NIH Officeof the Director Anti-Harassment Champions Working Group. Additionally, she sitsas an ad-hoc member on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director Working Groupon Diversity.

Dr. Parker is involved in several SGM-related initiatives beyond NIH. Sheserves as co-chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Working Groupof the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology as well as co-chair for theDepartment of Health and Human Services LGBT Coordinating Committee.

She began her career at NIH in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow. Dr.Parker received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Indiana University and herMaster of Social Work from the University of Michigan. She subsequently completedher Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work.