Health disparities and inequities among marginalized communities reflect the institutional structures that impede communities from accessing healthcare and clinical studies....
Ricki Fairley, the founder and CEO of Touch, the Black Breast Cancer Alliance in Annapolis, discusses how she created a whole new life for herself after her breast cancer diagnosis and how her nonprofit aims to change the way the world looks at Black women...
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....
