Tag: NIH
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Keep this amazing grace!
Today marked the end of an amazing journey. It was the end of a five year-term as a permanent member of an NIH review section. One that began exactly one week after I gave birth to my 4th baby. All of this in early months of the pandemic. This journey was amazing because I really don’t…
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Keep your failures!
There was a time, all I did was fail with every grant I wrote. Welcome to a new month. I woke up to an email sent to the entire university celebrating a recent success today. I am honored and grateful but I can’t help but remember the times of failure. Yes, failure. Sure the messages…
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Keep communities designing transformative interventions by communities themselves!
If we keep doing what we have been doing, the odds of getting the same results will be high. It’s for this reason I am drawn to grants that ask for innovation. Transformative ones too. Today, I sat through an NIH webinar focused on a transformative grant application to address health disparities and advance health…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 