The foundation and consequences of gender bias in grant peer review processes

Affiliations

¹ Department of International Health (Morgan), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.; Pamoja Communications Ltd. (Hawkins), Argyll and Bute, UK; Gender, Work and Health Research Unit (Lundine), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. rosemary.morgan@jhu.edu.
² Department of International Health (Morgan), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.; Pamoja Communications Ltd. (Hawkins), Argyll and Bute, UK; Gender, Work and Health Research Unit (Lundine), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.

Comment

Rosemary Morgan et al. CMAJ. 2018.

. 2018 Apr 23;190(16):E487-E488.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.180188.

¹ Department of International Health (Morgan), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.; Pamoja Communications Ltd. (Hawkins), Argyll and Bute, UK; Gender, Work and Health Research Unit (Lundine), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. rosemary.morgan@jhu.edu.
² Department of International Health (Morgan), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.; Pamoja Communications Ltd. (Hawkins), Argyll and Bute, UK; Gender, Work and Health Research Unit (Lundine), Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Jamie Lundine reports personal fees from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, outside the submitted work.

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