Health Equity

Why minority representation in medical research is a matter of life and death

Abstract: U.S. racial and ethnic diversity is ever increasing, but the medical representation of minority groups is not. A recent review of government-funded cancer research studies found that participants were disproportionately white, and fewer than 2 percent of these clinical trials focused on minorities specifically.

Date Published: October 30, 2019

Author(s): Cat Wise, Jason Kane

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