February 2019
On February 28, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided an update on the agency’s efforts to address harassment both within NIH and with its external grantees.
In the update, NIH reported that the agency’s Working Group of the Advisory Council to the Director (ACD) on Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment held its first meeting in February. The ACD is charged with:
NIH leadership noted some of the takeaways from both the ACD working group meeting and meetings of the NIH Anti-Harassment Committee:
The ACD working group plans to issue an interim report and recommendations in June with a final report out in December.