NIH Apologizes for Inaction Against Sexual Harassment
February 28, 2019
The National Institutes of Health has publicly apologized for its shortcomings in handling complaints of sexual harassment by grant recipients and staff members, citing problems highlighted in a recent National Academies report. Writing in Issues, the study director for the report described the pervasive ways that sexual harassment damages both researchers and the research environment, calling on the research community to start treating sexual harassment as a violation of responsible research conduct.