FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Florida State University (FSU) is one of 6 universities among the first cohort of the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program. FSU aims to develop, implement, and evaluate a program, Fostering Institutional Resources for Science Transformation: The FLORIDA-FIRST Health-Science Brigade is transforming culture at FSU to generate a self-sustaining scientific community dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence. We propose leveraging institutional resources to recruit a FIRST Cohort of 6 early-career, biomedical researchers who demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence and who contribute to clusters of research excellence in chronic disease prevention and management (Cluster 1) or mental health (Cluster 2) and to implement a systems-level approach and generate evidence of its effectiveness for supporting individual faculty research and career development (micro), within their cohort and collaborative networks..

Also known as: Florida First