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An advisory group of US National Institutes of Health officials, researchers, and victims of sexual harassment issued a report Thursday (December 12) that calls for a crackdown on sexual harassment in NIH-funded labs, according to Science.
Recommendations put forth by the Working Group on Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment include requiring NIH-funded institutions to notify the agency within two weeks when a grant recipient is found guilty of sexual misconduct, barring confirmed harassers from serving on NIH advisory councils, and mandating that grant applicants report sexual harassment findings against them.
“It’s a very comprehensive document, which clearly they spent a lot of time on. It really addresses sexual harassment at all levels, from institutional leadership to protecting the safety and careers of targets of harassment,” Heather Pierce, the senior director of science policy for the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, DC, ...
