B08 - Addressing Implicit, Unconscious, and Conscious Biases: Leadership, Investigators, and Ethics Boards Throughout the Lifecycle of Research Initiatives

The lifecycle of research initiatives can be impacted by biases and so, awareness and strategies (and courage) can help you, as a leader, contribute to a more inclusive world and make our work/research activities more intentional and deliberate. This session will help attendees explore their identities to consider their unconscious biases, reexamine ways that inherent bias impacts decisions and actions, and consider strategies to avoid bias traps. The presenters will provide diverse perspectives on the key areas of unconscious, conscious, and implicit bias that impact equity in the research enterprise. This will be done through group illustrative case studies. Additionally, the session will provide practical recommendations on how to ask the questions necessary to unpack their own bias, identify bias within institutional processes, identify and address gender bias and western/colonial dominant culture bias in the USA, and address bias in the design and conduct of research.