Addressing Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine

The 2018 National Academy of Science report on Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in the Academic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine revealed the prevalence of sexual and gender harassment of women in STEMM. The report demonstrated that 50% of women faculty and staff and 20-50% of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia, and medicine has the highest frequency. Since the report release, institutions and national agencies have dedicated considerable effort to explore innovative ways to address sexual harassment. This year both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education have been making progress to create change in the culture of science to maximize talent and end harassment. Finally, new data collected by the AAMC of faculty experiences of sexual and gender harassment across genders sheds light on issues specific to academic medicine.

Join Carrie Wolinetz, PhD, NIH Acting Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Science Policy, and Frazier Benya, PhD, study director for the NASEM sexual harassment report, and the AAMC as they address:

• Recent national data related to faculty experiences of sexual and gender harassment in academic medicine
• The NASEM report’s key recommendations
• Updates on the two-year running NASEM Action Collaborative
• How NIH is working implement recommendations from the final report from the Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment

Drs. Wolinetz and Benya welcome discussion during a question and answer period to follow the presentation. You may also submit questions ahead of time to @Amanda Field, PhD, AAMC Senior Science Policy Specialist, at afield@aamc.org.