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My Journey as a Black Scientist, NIH-funded Investigator, DEI Leader, and Mental Health Advocate

My Journey as a Black Scientist, NIH-funded Investigator, DEI Leader, and Mental Health AdvocateOn December 9, 2021, Nii Addy, Ph.D. was the next guest speaker for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director’s Innovation Speaker Series. Dr. Addy is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Yale School of Medicine. In this talk, Dr. Addy shared his experiences and journey as a Black scientist, mentor, mentee, sponsor, diversity, equity, inclusion leader, and mental health advocate. Dr. Addy currently serves as the inaugural Director of Scientist Diversity and Inclusion at the Yale School of Medicine, as the Director of the faculty mentoring program for the Yale Minority Organization for Retention and Expansion (MORE), as Co-chair of the Career Development Subcommittee of the Anti-Racism Task Force in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and as the Associate Director of Diversity in the NIMH-funded Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP) in Psychiatry at Yale.

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