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How Digital Technology Can Increase Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In Medical Research
In an article in Forbes, Praduman Jain of Vibrent Health—an All of Us partner organization—discusses the lack of diversity in research, citing a recent commentary in Cell by All of Us and NIH leadership, and details how digital technology can reduce health disparities and boost scientific discovery.
May 12, 2021
Type: News
All of Us Research Program Ramping up on In-Person Enrollment
Doctor Cora E Lewis, a professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health, talked to the Birmingham Times about the pause of in-person enrollment for the All of Us Research Program when the pandemic started in March 2020 and explained how in-person recruitment resumed at UAB in January 2021 with safety precautions in place.
April 8, 2021
Type: News
"All of Us" Aims to Expand Tribal Engagement for Precision Medicine
The All of Us Research Program is working to respectfully engage American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people and support their inclusion in precision medicine research. NIH engaged in a two-year Tribal Consultation process to gather input from tribal leaders; as a result, All of Us leaders reaffirmed a set of commitments to Tribal Nations, including rules to never recruit on tribal lands or disclose participants’ tribal affiliations without a tribe’s agreement.
April 5, 2021
Type: News
Woman of Medicine: Karen Dotson ALL OF US!
All of Us at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), in collaboration with partners throughout the country, is laying the groundwork for research that may help eliminate health disparities, particularly in communities of color. Historically, these communities have been underrepresented in biomedical research and experience the greatest disparities in health care access and health outcomes. Karen Dotson and her All of Us team at MCW want to lead the region in program enrollments from communities of color.
March 26, 2021
Type: News
Addressing health inequity in disparities of cancer outcomes
The research community has responded to the recognized lack of population diversity in clinical trials. A cornerstone of the All of Us Research Program is the enrollment of racial and ethnic minorities to ensure that diversity can inform precision medicine research.
March 14, 2021
Type: News
Intel and Google Cloud Team with All of Us Research Program
Intel joins the NIH All of Us Research Program in its historic effort to improve population health by making biomedical data from underrepresented groups available to COVID-19 researchers nationwide via the Researcher Workbench.
February 2, 2021
Type: News
