Letter to the White House on the selection of a new NIH Director

Department of Family Medicine and Mixed Methods Program, University of Michigan

UCSF

University of California, San Francisco Clinical and Translational Science Institute,

University of Michigan School of Public Health

Executive Director, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation

Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health

As an emergency medicine physician and researcher, the importance of community-engaged research has been underscored during this pandemic and in the epidemics of mental illness and gun violence in this country. It is through engagement and empowerment of the communities who are living through and striving despite, these public health concerns that we will solve some of the greatest issues our society faces today.

Health Literacy Librarian, University of Pennsylvania

Clinical Instructor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California, San Francisco

We need an informed public health official and with someone who understands the needs of the many

Founding Director, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California, San Francisco

University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health

I strongly support all content.

DIrector, California Alliance of Schools and Programs of Public Health Professor Emeritus, UCLA Family Medicine

Professor of Public Health, University of Alaska Anchorage

Representative and transformative leadership for health equity

It is clear that a critical pathway to the elimination of health and health care disparities is through engagement with minoritized communities. Please ensure the new NIH director understands historic failures of dissemination and inclusive research and can build new bridges to ensure equity in research and intervention design.

I urge President Biden to center equity and the Social Determinants of Health during the selection process and appointment of a new NIH Director.