The Flagel Lab

DEI Statement

Members of the Flagel Lab are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment. We value the collaborative and respectful environment that characterizes our lab and work together to maintain it. We learn from each other how best to support individuals from populations historically underrepresented in our field and how to engage in anti-racism practices. We try to normalize and embrace the uncomfortable conversations that are necessary in order to make progress. We recognize that diversity is essential to scientific progress and that inclusion is critical, and we embrace the different backgrounds and cultures represented in our laboratory.

The Flagel Lab promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion

in the following ways

Community outreach events, often focused on youth who would not otherwise be exposed to science or scientific careers at such a young age

Participation in summer mentorship programs aimed at enhancing diverse representation in neuroscience

Attendance at institutional workshops to further our education surrounding topics of diversity, equity and inclusion

Bi-monthly lab meetings centered around topics of diversity, equity and inclusion

Some examples of articles discussed included the following:

Opioid Crisis: Another Mechanism Used to Perpetuate American Racism by Hart CL & Hart MZ (Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol., 2019)
Exaggerating Harmful Drug Effects on the Brain Is Killing Black People by Hart CL (Neuron, 2020)
"Seeing Color," A Discussion of the Implications and Applications of Race in the Field of Neuroscience by Abiodun SJ (Front Hum Neurosci., 2019)
Disability Discrimination, Medical Rationing and COVID-19 by Chen B & McNamara DM (Asian Bioeth Rev., 2020)
The Consequences of Structural Racism on MCAT Scores and Medical School Admissions: The Past Is Prologue by Lucey CM & Saguil A
Sex Differences in the Impact of Racial Discrimination on Mental Health Among Black Americans by Brownlow et al. (Curr Psychiatry Rep., 2019)
The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors by June AW (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015)
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Racial inequity in grant funding from the US national institutes of health by Taffe MA & Gilpin NW