Resources

EDI Strategic Plan

Components:

• Increasing social accountability for change in the ISCB society
• Obtaining data and developing measures to assess progress
• Voluntary training: The “ISCB Awareness toolkit”
• Recruitment initiative
• Mentoring

Read ISCB’s EDI Strategic Plan

Read ISCB's awareness toolkit associated with the Strategic Plan

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EDI Statements and Policies

• A Safe Space (ISCB Code of Conduct)
• ISCB's Statement on Countering Social Injustice
• ISCB Writes Nature Communications Urging the Correction/Retraction of Recent Article on Mentoring

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EDI Annual Reports

• ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions 2020-2021 Annual Report
• ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions 2021-2022 Annual Report

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Additional EDI Resources

• National Institute of Health (USA) Diversity Data Finder: https://diversity.nih.gov/science-diversity/diversity-data-finder
• National Institute of Health (USA) Diversity Resources: https://diversity.nih.gov
• Guidelines on recruiting and hiring diverse faculty (from UW Madison) https://wiseli.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/662/2018/11/SearchBook_Wisc.pdf
• Reviewing applicants, research on bias and assumptions (from UW Madison): https://wiseli.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/662/2018/10/BiasBrochure_3rdEd.pdf

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EDI Papers/Literature

• A look into ISCB:
  Casey Greene's Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.927251v2
• Other Diversity Research articles: https://diversity.nih.gov/find-read-learn/diversity-research-articles

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