A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop on the systems and structures through which researchers engage in the global scientific enterprise, the extent to which Black people globally engage in science, engineering, and medical research and practice internationally and, ways to increase their participation. Discussions will include the systems necessary for cultivating internationally engaged researchers, opportunities for leveraging existing infrastructure globally, and ways that professional societies can catalyze the involvement of Black people in the global scientific enterprise.

Major objectives of the workshop include:

• Examining how global and regional professional societies and science academies select and engage scientists globally.

• Highlighting existing structures that have demonstrated success in developing internationally engaged Black science, engineering, and medicine practitioners,

• Exploring novel opportunities for increasing the number of Black scientists exposed to and inducted into science academies across the globe,

• Identifying potential frameworks that may support cross-sectoral coordination and the sustained international engagement of Black science, engineering, and medicine practitioners.

Following the workshop, a rapporteur-authored workshop proceedings will be published.