NIH Academy Health Disparities Week 2023

About the NIH Academy Health Disparities Awareness Week

NIH Academy on Health Disparities offers postbacs at the NIH the opportunity to learn about health disparities, enhance their knowledge of gaps in health outcomes, and investigate what is being done to address health disparity issues.

Throughout the program, participants engage with each other to plan and develop a health disparity-centered project.

This year, the NIH Academy on Health Disparities group projects will be streamed LIVE May 15-17 and can be accessed through this website until May 19. There are 43 groups (5 members each), who will chose to develop an infographic, podcast or video highlighting various health disparities topics and populations, including:

• Food insecurity/food deserts/nutrition
• Mental health
• Cancer
• Infectious diseases (e.g., COVID-19, HIV)
• Environmental racism and climate justice
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Sexual and gender minority health
• Maternal and child health
• Chronic health conditions (e.g., diabetes, asthma, PCOS)
• Personalized medicine
• Health insurance access/healthcare access
• Race/ethnicity
• Gender
• Sexual orientation
• Education and income
• Geographic location (rural, urban, etc.)
• Global/International
• Language barriers
• Age (children, adolescents, and seniors)
• Immigrant status
• Incarceration
• Disability
• Homelessness
• Intersectionality

NIH Academy Heath Disparities Week: From Awareness to Mitigation, is an opportunity to share postbacs’ work to a wider audience.