3K views | Julia Taylor is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research participant who is passionate about Research Diversity in clinical studies. Julia actively works to recruit more African Americans to participate in clinical studies. #NMHM19 WATCH: | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | Facebook

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: “I am tremendously proud of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees because we got all of those grants reviewed by the end of the fiscal year…this year, even with the shutdown, we’ve figured out processes to be more efficient, reduce the amount of administrative burden and red tape to make researchers’ lives easier to propose amazing ideas that’ll improve health.” | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services