NIH Updates Sexual Harassment Policy

Jun 12, 2020

The US National Institutes of Health has updated its policies regarding sexual harassment in a move aimed at making it easier to hold investigators and institutions to account, officials including NIH Director Francis Collins write in an editorial at Science.

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