Must the Recruitment and Retention Plan to Enhance Diversity address all of the Diversity Recruitment Groups?
Yes. The plan to diversify the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences workforce should include information about efforts to recruit and retain individuals from all of the NIH-defined Diversity Recruitment Groups (see Question 3). NIH expects continued efforts to recruit and retain individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups consistent with the policy initiated in 1989, and remains committed to its implementation and success. Under the new policy, NIH has broadened its expectations with respect to recruitment and retention of additional groups.
