The lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for decades to come, and some of those impacts aren’t fully understood yet, especially among communities of color and the elderly....
Check out some photos from the inaugural Wisconsin Collaborative Clinical Research Professionals Conference at UW–Madison....
Michaele Linden-Johnson is at the helm of a program designed to better serve the health and clinical trial needs of her nearly 90% Hispanic patient population in and around El Paso, Texas....
A group of NIH scientists and their colleagues recently published a study that they hope is a step toward better understanding geographic disparities and their role in health equity....
COVID spotlights the troubling disparity in clinical research representation. How can we remove these barriers?...
While it’s laudable to work to advance clinical trial diversity, it’s also important to widen the “aperture” to address a wide range of underserved populations, including the elderly, rural, people with disabilities, under/un-insured, and others....
Studies regarding the effect of diverse healthcare professional staff in improving outcomes for BIPOC patient populations indicate that addressing established racial and ethnic disparities in the global clinical research workforce may be an important element in promoting participant diversity....
The FDA’s recommendations to improve diversity in clinical trials provide a much-needed action plan to jumpstart the changes that need to be made to ensure inclusive care, yet these recommended guidelines only scratch the surface of ideal action in clinical trials....
Educating future and current scientists from diverse backgrounds benefits the entire biomedical research enterprise, changing the world through advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention....
Promoting a diverse clinical trial workforce is a key pillar of any effective effort to promote patient population diversity....
