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Using Research and Technology to Address Compounding Disparities: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... 1 Wayne Frederick, president of Howard University and a practicing physician, delivered the workshop's keynote address on the ways in which the intersection of bias and representation drive disparities in research and clinical medicine. He explained that the lack of diverse representation in medical fields contributes to health disparities -- a physician's cultural competency is a key determinant of health in minority populations, yet only approximately 500 African-American males are enrolling in medical school each year in a nation of 300 million people.
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... The Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science focuses on early participation: 96 percent of its students go to college, 60 percent of whom go into a STEM discipline. In the BISON STEM Scholars Program, a program intended to attract high-achieving and community service-oriented high school students into various STEM disciplines, students who have committed to a STEM Ph.D.
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... Source: Eliseo Pérez-Stable, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, presentation to the GovernmentUniversity-Industry Research Roundtable on October 16, 2019. Factors to assess socioeconomic status or social class in clinical medicine include education (the most consistent measure)
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... The Sloan Foundation offers scholarships for women and other historically underrepresented groups (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives) in STEM disciplines through its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grants.
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... It includes nine policy recommendations, all of which have significant potential to boost health, well-being, and quality of life by addressing key social determinants. These recommendations include affordable housing, alcohol sales control, complete streets, earned sick leave, food safety, health food procurement, high-quality universal Pre-K, smoke-free indoor air, and prevention of tobacco addiction.
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... Kim described clinical health and distance education programs that address structural barriers to connectivity and improve telehealth for Native American and other rural communities in California. With 80 percent of its children obese, a tribal community in Northern California was concerned about the health of its members.
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... Among African Americans, there was no significant gender earnings gap in any year; however, both African American men and African American women earned less than men and women of other racial/ethnic groups. Hispanic women earned less than Hispanic men only in 2010, but Hispanic women tend to be disadvantaged in earnings in the workforce, and earning a doctorate does not necessarily eliminate that disadvantage.
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... The statements made are those of the author or individual meeting participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all meeting participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. PLANNING COMMITTEE: Katie Stebbins, University of Massachusetts at Boston; and Kaye Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology STAFF: Susan Sauer Sloan, Director, GUIRR; Megan Nicholson, Program Officer; Lillian Andrews, Senior Program Assistant; Clara Savage, Senior Finance Business Partner; and Cyril Lee, Financial Assistant.
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