Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Sam S. Oh, University of California, San Francisco; Joshua Galanter, University of California, San Francisco; Neeta Thakur, University of California, San Francisco; Maria Pino-Yanes, University of California, San Francisco; Nicolas E. Barcelo, University of California, San Francisco; Marquitta J. White, University of California, San Francisco; Danielle M. de Bruin, University of California, San Francisco; Ruth M. Greenblatt, University of California, San Francisco; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, University of California, San Francisco; Alan H. B. Wu, University of California, San Francisco; Luisa N. Borrell, City University of New York; Christie Gunter, Emory University; Neil R. Powe, University of California, San Francisco; Esteban G. Burchard, University of California, San Francisco
• Language: English
• Date: 2015-12-01
• Publisher: Public Library of Science
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2015 Oh et al
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001918
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: PLoS Medicine
• ISSN: 1549-1277
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 12
• Start Page: e1001918
• End Page: e1001918
• Grant/Funding Information: MPY was funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Fundación Ramón Areces (www.fundacionareces.es).; This study was supported in part by National Institutes of Health R01-HL117004 and HL104608 grants, the RWJF Amos Medical Faculty Development Award, the Sandler Foundation and the American Asthma Foundation to EGB, and the National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities under Award Number P60 MD006902 and R25MD006832.; JG was supported in part by NIH Training Grant T32 (GM007546) and career development awards from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (K23HL111636) and NCATS KL2 (KL2TR000143), as well as the Hewett Fellowship.; RMG was supported by the National Institutes of Health (U01AI034989, 5K12HD052163, P01 AI083050-02, R01-A122590, R01-A123240) and The J. David Gladstone Institutes (P01 AI083050-02).; SSO was in part supported by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute.
• Keywords: ASSOCIATION; ENHANCING MINORITY PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS; AFRICAN-AMERICANS; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; TRIALS EMPACT; NIH; Science & Technology; General & Internal Medicine; HEALTH; CANCER; SEX; RACE; Medicine, General & Internal
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Epidemiology; Health Sciences, Public Health; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

Esteban Gonzalez Burchard and colleagues explore how making medical research more diverse would aid not only social justice but scientific quality and clinical effectiveness, too.