# Fair Play: Bias Literacy and Resiliency Training to Empower the Future Biomedical Workforce

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 2020 · $406,428

## Abstract

Project Summary
The overall objective of this proposal is to train graduate students and postdoctoral scientists
about the concept of implicit bias, the effects of bias on underrepresented minority students
in the biomedical, behavioral and clinical science (BBCS) fields, and the strategies to
mitigate the effects of bias on themselves, as well as in their current and future work
environments. This training both complements and extends the previously-funded project
titled, Breaking the Bias Cycle for Future Scientists: A Workshop to Learn, Experience, and Change
(NIH-NIGMS, R25GM114002, 2005-2020). It also leverages a number of other NIH-funded
projects to ensure that successful bias-reducing and mentoring models, trainings/workshops,
and strategies are applied in different venues and with additional populations (Carnes, 2015,
2017; Kaatz et al., 2017; Sorkness et al., 2017).
The specific aims of this project are to: 1) Develop training for graduate students and
postdoctoral scientists about implicit bias and its effects to empower them with bias-reducing
and resiliency-building strategies that positively influence their current and future work
environments; 2) Conduct the training through in-person workshops at universities, national
labs, and conferences, as well as through online webinars to deepen participant learning and to
provide ongoing support; and 3) Provide Fair Play Workshop Facilitator Training to expert
facilitators who have the foundational knowledge, skills, interest and commitment to further
disseminate and sustain this initiative. At the completion of the grant period, we expect to have:
1) an enhanced workshop conducted with ~2000 graduate students and postdocs to empower
them with bias-reducing and resiliency-building strategies, 2) complementary training offered
through webinars to enhance the learning of this subject post-workshop, and 3) approximately
200 trained facilitators who are able to offer workshops immediately after they are trained. The
investigators are ideally positioned to carry out the proposed work because they have
successfully collaborated on research, development and dissemination of Fair Play and its
accompanying materials on which this proposal is based.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10049065
- **Project number:** 2R25GM114002-06
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **Principal Investigator:** Christine Maidl Pribbenow
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $406,428
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2015-06-01 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10049065

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10049065, Fair Play: Bias Literacy and Resiliency Training to Empower the Future Biomedical Workforce (2R25GM114002-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10049065. Licensed CC0.

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