1. DIVERSITY USC’s enduring commitment to diversity of thought,
experience, and people makes us stronger.
We will fight on for inclusion, equity, access, and opportunity.
Our goal is to create a culture of transformative scholarship, founded on the strengths of a diverse campus in an urban setting, including a racially, ethnically and intellectually diverse faculty.
SILVIA DA COSTA, PH.D.
Director, Faculty Research Relations
Diversity Officer for Research and Scholarship
Office of Research
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy

2. DIVERSITY $$ Six Pillars of Research & Scholarship Strategic Plan
Collaborations
Research Centers & Current Research
Funding
USC Grants $$

3. Strategic Plan
Six Pillars of
Research & Scholarship

4. Six Pillars of Research & Scholarship
Advancing diversity & inclusion in research and scholarship

7. Strategic Plan  Diversity & Inclusion

8. Collaborations

9. Estudio de la Enfermedad de Alzheimer en Jalisciences (EEAJ)
Research Centers
Biomedical Research and Health Policy
Disentangling the Stress Process: Race/Ethnic Differences in the Exposure and Appraisal of Chronic Stressors Among Older Adults
The Long-Term Benefits of Quality Early Childcare for Disadvantaged Mothers and their Children
Minority Aging and Health Economics Research Center
Estudio de la Enfermedad de Alzheimer en Jalisciences (EEAJ)
Unfair Treatment within Employment, Criminal Justice, Education and Housing and Cardiometabolic Risk in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Healthcare Philanthropy in California: Assessing the Landscape of Health Grantmaking (report) 

10. Research Centers
Arts & Humanities

11. Research Centers Social & Behavioral Sciences
Immigrant Lives, American Futures: Linking Asset Building and Immigrant Integration
When the next generation looks racially different from the last
Latinos and the Future of American Politics
Environmental Justice Projects
Regional Equity
Social Movements Research

12. Research Centers

13. Funding Collaboration Fund Ming Hsieh Institute for Research for
Engineering-Medicine for Cancer
Rose Hills Foundation Innovator Grant Program
Zumberge Faculty and Research Innovation Fund

14. Zumberge Faculty and Research Innovation Fund
The Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in Research Award
$30,000
Supports research and scholarship that addresses critical gaps in knowledge on equity, diversity, and inclusion, or which benefits diverse communities.
Eligible topics include research that:
is informed by and serves the needs of diverse communities so that the research findings reflect any unique aspects of diverse populations;
collaborates (new or established collaborations) with minority-serving organizations, such as the USC + Los Angeles County Hospital, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Minority Serving Institutions (MI) and/or local non-profit or community organizations;
targets Training and/or Career Development grants, enhancing the number of researchers or scholars from diverse population groups who are well prepared for research careers

15. Questions?
Please visit us at the Office of Research table!