20 Jul If our patients are diverse, why are clinical trials so white?
Despite facing worse health outcomes, minority populations are often left out of clinical trials and miss the opportunity to participate in life-saving research....
Health Equity
14 Jul Health disparities leave Native Americans more vulnerable to COVID-19
Native Americans are among the groups at higher risk for contracting COVID-19 who have also seen higher rates of hospitalization nationwide....
13 Jul Dane County Board recognizes racism as a public health crisis
Dane County officially declared racism to be a public health crisis acknowledging that racism threatens long-term individual and population health and is a cause of persistent racial discrimination in housing, education, employment and criminal justice....
10 Jul Maryland’s Prince George’s County is among nation’s wealthiest Black communities, but it leads state in coronavirus cases
Dr. Stephen B. Thomas and his team at the University of Maryland's Center for Health Equity are in the midst of a real-time case study asking a disconcerting question: Why has affluent Prince George’s been hit harder by the coronavirus than any other place in Maryland?...
10 Jul Listen: Dr. Josh Denny, CEO, All of Us, NIH
Posted at 11:32h
in All of Us, COVID-19, Health Equity, NIH, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Research
All of Us aims to collect and study health data from at least a million people in the U.S. to advance precision medicine. The program's CEO, Josh Denny discusses the role of electronic health records, how the program protects participant privacy and, most recently, how the program is pivoting efforts to make discoveries about COVID-19....
06 Jul The fullest look yet at the racial inequity of coronavirus
Black and Latino people have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in a widespread manner that spans the country, throughout hundreds of counties in urban, suburban and rural areas, and across all age groups....
06 Jul Dane County partners with Boys & Girls Club to bring COVID testing to the community
Public Health Madison & Dane County is bringing COVID-19 testing to the community....
29 Jun Covid-19 vaccine research must involve Black and Latinx participants. Here are 4 ways to make that happen
COVID-19 vaccine development presents an opportunity to break down barriers to the engagement of Black and Latinx individuals in clinical trials research. Ideally, vaccine trials should include participants from communities that have the highest risk of infection. In the case of COVID-19, those at-risk communities are disproportionately Black and Latinx....
24 Jun Webinar: Talking BarberShop – Improving Black Men’s Health
In this webinar, hosted in partnership with the University of Wisconsin’s Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE), local and national health equity leaders discuss successes and challenges of using the Barbershop Community Engagement Model to help improve the health of Black men....
16 Jun All of Us Research Program launches COVID-19 research initiatives
Posted at 12:37h
in All of Us, COVID-19, Health Equity, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Research
The All of Us Research Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced that it is leveraging its significant and diverse participant base to seek new insights into COVID-19—through antibody testing, a survey on the pandemic’s impacts and collection of electronic health record information....