AGIE Leadership Team
The VCU AGIE Center is a U24 initiative in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is funded by the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The VCU AGIE Center serves as a centralized hub to optimize the success of career advancement programs, setting a national standard of excellence for advancing women faculty into leadership positions across the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields.
Our MISSION is to develop an interactive, dynamic, and evidence-based repository to improve access to resources, tools, technologies, expertise, and strategies that address career advancement in the STEMM academic and research workforce. We will use a multi-pronged dissemination strategy to promote the repository to have a broad impact on the success of career advancement programs in the STEMM academic and research workforce nationwide. Additionally, the VCU AGIE Center features a Pilot and Feasibility Program, enabling research institutions to develop innovative strategies to address career advancement in the STEMM academic or research workforce.
Under its multidisciplinary leadership, the VCU AGIE Center, in collaboration with the NIH, promotes and expands this repository across the national stage to make a significant impact on the success of career advancement programs. The VCU AGIE Center team collects and evaluates data on career advancement strategies that academic institutions across the U.S. have established to build a central, accessible repository that makes it easy for schools and organizations to assess their own performance in advancing women in STEMM and then find tailored, targeted programs to implement. The primary outcome of the VCU AGIE Center is to set a national standard of excellence for advancing women in faculty in leadership positions across the STEMM fields. By accomplishing this goal, this program will create a functional, validated, and sustainable resource to improve career advancement in the STEMM academic and research workforce.
The VCU AGIE Center is directed by an interdisciplinary team of experts from the VCU School of Medicine, College of Engineering, School of Education, and Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research and is administratively housed in the VCU Institute for Women’s Health.
For additional inquiries, contact Kellyn Moody (Program Coordinator) at Kellyn.Moody@vcuhealth.org.