NIH’s Hannah Valantine shares insights on workplace diversity
In 2014, Hannah Valantine, MD, left Stanford for a newly created position at the National Institutes of Health: chief officer of scientific workforce diversity. On Thursday, she returned to a packed Berg Hall to discuss workforce diversity as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series. The series was created by Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, to promote discussion and leadership on scientific and medical diversity. “I know that working through these issues together can be complicated, emotional and deeply personal, but I consider it our duty to create a more diverse and inclusive workplaces,” Minor said in his introduction. A former senior associate dean for diversity and faculty development at the School of Medicine, Valantine is uniquely positioned to offer a “candid perspective” on the state of scientific diversity nationally, and at Stanford, Minor said. …Read more
