Funding for DART 2024 is in-part provided by the NIH. As a partner with the NIH, DART 2024 is committed providing a safe environment free of sexual, racial, and ethnic harassment and discrimination.

 Harassment includes verbal, written or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility toward an individual based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.  Harassment is defined as behavior that is severe to pervasive enough to create an environment that a reasonable person would consider the be intimidating, hostile, offensive or abusive.  Examples include but are not limited to commenting on or making fun of a person’s religious beliefs, using racially biased epithets, stalking or deliberate intimidation.

 Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, comments, gestures, or contact of a sexual nature whether on a one-time basis or in a continuous series of incidents that might reasonably be expected to offend or embarrass an individual.  Some examples of sexual harassment include, but are not limited to offensive comments, inappropriate touching, engaging in derogatory stereotypes about members or a particular gender, telling obscene jokes, discussing sexual activities, the use of sexual language and imagery, accessing pornographic internet sites while at the Hacienda del Mar meeting locations for DART 2024 (This includes all events and lectures at the conference; in-doors or outdoors),  offering professional advantages, coercion, or attempted coercion in return for sexual favors.

 Any person who believes that he or she is the victim of inappropriate conduct, including sexual or other forms of harassment or bullying, or that a colleague of DART 2024 affiliate has been subject to harassment, should promptly report the incident to DART 2024 staff at +1 404-551-4848 or DART 2022 staff on premises, identifiable by heather pink DART 2022 shirts and/or yellow lanyards. 

 All concerns will be treated seriously.  DART 2024 will conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of all the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident and will keep the complaint and investigation confidential to the extent practicable.  If the investigation leads DART 2024 to conclude that an individual has committed an act of harassment, that individual will be subject to appropriate actions, up to and including expulsion from the event premises and may no longer be allowed to participate in future DART events.

 If you believe you have been in victim of harassment or bullying additional remedies include filing and complaint with health and human services (HHS) or filing a complaint with the National Institutes of Health  (NIH). Seeking assistance from the conference organizer in no way prohibits filing a complaint with HHS or the NIH.

 ]Please reach out to the conference secretariate, Informed Horizons Education at info@ihorizonsed.com if you have any questions or concerns about the DART 2022 policies.