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

Professor of Medicine, UCSF

North Jersey Community Research Initiative

Please help medical research remain relevant to everyone!

Department Chair & Associate Professor of Public Health California State University, East Bay

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health

PhD student in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley

As a public health advocate and practitioner supporting community-driven change processes, I agree that this type of leadership at a federal level is really needed.

Professor of Social Epidemiology, American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Professor, Department of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

The days of doing research to people without their consent, design and oversight has to come to an end. It's not just the right thing to do, greedily the National Institutes for health should be formalizing how they procure the vital insights of people experiencing the public health phenomena that the Institute presumes to understand.

Dean & Professor Emerita, School of Public Health, University of Memphis

Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Assistant Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University

Assistant in Psychology Psychotic Disorders Division, McLean Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, School of Public Health & Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Professor of Communication and Co-Coordinator of the Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative, Santa Clara University

As a researcher and community member, this is critical in helping foster meaningful and impactful research with communities.

As a community engaged researcher and Family Physician, this is essential.

I am physician who cares for patients with sickle cell disease and can attest, first hand, the importance of having a leader at the NIH who values health equity and has experience in implementing measures and programs to ensure care equity. Thanks for considering the selection of a world leader in Health Equity for the NIH.

PhD Student in Public Health Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis