Genentech and Genentech Foundation’s 2022 Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund will award over $12M in grant funding.
Donor Name: Genentech
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/10/2022
Size of the Grant: $750K
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
Decades of research in the sociology of medicine, social epidemiology, and other fields illuminate the root cause of health inequities. These unjust and avoidable differences in health and well-being are driven by forces of oppression—not by biology or individual behavior, and cannot be explained away by socioeconomic status. Racism shapes access to the building blocks of health and well-being—such as economic opportunity, safe neighborhoods, and high-quality health care services—directly influencing the ability of communities of color to attain and maintain optimal health. Additionally, racism concentrates health-harming conditions—such as exposure to pollutants and toxins and poor housing quality—in communities of color and can even “get under their skin” by raising pre-clinical disease indicators and altering the way genes are expressed. Racism in health care shows up in many forms, including but not limited to: distorted clinical algorithms (anchored to false beliefs about biological race) that risk poor clinical quality for people of color5; beliefs about the suitability of people of color to participate in cancer clinical trials and subsequent withholding of trial opportunities6; and a “two-tier” healthcare system starkly along the line of race, resulting in poorer quality of care for people of color.
The Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund invites proposals to support major priorities:
- Health Equity: Increasing representation of communities of color in clinical research and eliminating inequities in care delivery
- Workforce Diversity: Dismantling barriers to a diverse, inclusive and antiracist scientific and health care workforce.
Aims
- Aim 1: Advancing Health Equity
- Aim 2: Promoting Diversity in STEM
- Graduate Education Pathways: Reduce barriers to entry and increase diversity
- Community-Building
- Systems Change
- Aim 3: Promoting Diversity in Undergraduate STEM Pathways (Genentech Foundation)
Funding Information
- For Aims 1 and 2, they invite grant applications ranging from $250K to $750K over the course of 18 to 36 months. For Aim 3, they invite grant applications ranging from $150K to $300K over the course of 12 to 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be recognized by the IRS as a tax exempt, public charity under sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code or be a U.S. governmental organization (such as public schools, public colleges and universities, public hospitals, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments).
For more information, visit Health Equity & Diversity in Stem Innovation Fund.
