# Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED)

> **NIH NIH P30** · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $75,250

## Abstract

PLAN TO ENHANCE DIVERSITY: PROJECT SUMMARY
The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center (MCC) Director Robert A. Winn, MD,
established an Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) in early 2021 to assist with further diversifying
the MCC workforce and developing a stronger, more equitable, and inclusive culture to conduct cancer research
that benefits all. Winn empowered the ODEI to synergistically drive MCC faculty and staff recruitment and
retention efforts with the MCC’s Human Resource Office to increase diversity as well as promote diverse
leadership development within the MCC. ODEI also collaborates with the MCC Offices of Community Outreach
and Engagement (COE) and Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination to synergistically promote
an inclusive and supportive environment for faculty, staff, student/trainees, and its external advisors. These
efforts align with MCC’s 2021-2025 Strategic Plan and the National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support
Grant priorities aiming to promote diverse perspectives among those who are addressing the nation’s cancer
burden and address well-documented workforce gaps among certain racial/ethnic, geographic, sex/gender, and
socioeconomic populations. This can only be accomplished by ensuring that diverse teams of faculty scientists
and leaders, staff, students, and advisors have equitable input into new approaches and solutions. Led by the
Associate Director for DEI, Emmanuel A. Taylor, DrPH, and supported by senior, staff-level DEI Operations
Director, Tremayne D. Robertson, they work collaboratively with MCC, VCU, and VCU Health senior leadership
to implement more equitable hiring practices and promote a culture that is inclusive of all voices. The ODEI will
attract an increasingly diverse pool of talent for MCC consideration, assist with partnership building with other
minority-serving institutions to reach underrepresented populations, inform and promote career enhancement
and leadership development pathways, develop and refine DEI policies that drive diversity across MCC, and
establish methodologies to monitor and evaluate progress. Collectively this work ensures that the MCC
workforce best reflects the diversity of the catchment area it serves as well as the nation.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10850915
- **Project number:** 5P30CA016059-42
- **Recipient organization:** VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Emmanuel A. Taylor
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $75,250
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1995-12-01 → 2028-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10850915

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10850915, Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED) (5P30CA016059-42). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10850915. Licensed CC0.

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