Posts Tagged ‘Representation and Diversity’
Partnership Targets Better Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials
A new collaboration among Boston cancer centers aims to increase minority populations’ access to the latest treatments for more equitable outcomes
Read More‘It Is a Huge Miss’: Representation in COVID Clinical Trials
Researchers Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD and Nina Lin, MD describe their COVID clinical trials and why engaging underrepresented minorities to participate is essential.
Read MoreDo I Sound Like a Girl?
The definition of what it means to be professional and a leader in medicine is still rooted in classically masculine traits. That needs to change.
Read MoreChanging the Culture of Surgery: An Interview With Jennifer Tseng
A boundary-breaking chief surgeon reflects on burnout, discrimination, and the evolving culture of surgery.
Read MoreEsther Choo on Diversity, Equity, and Gender Bias in Healthcare
The emergency physician and TIME’S UP Healthcare founding member shares her perspective from the front lines of the equity fight.
Read MoreReversing Roles, Residents Teach Faculty — About Bias and Racism
A grassroots, resident-led series of case conferences addresses implicit bias and structural racism in medical education and clinical practice.
Read MoreAtlantic Pulse Summit Illuminates Healthcare Fixes
It’s no mystery that the U.S. healthcare system isn’t doing its best to keep Americans healthy. In fact, the United States has been a poor-performing outlier on multiple measures, including access, outcomes, and spending. There’s reason for hope, though — America excels when it comes to healthcare innovation and collaboration, both of which have the…
Read MoreTackling Racism and Representation in the Health Sciences
The Health Equity Symposium from Boston Medical Center serves as a call to look inward as a profession at equity, racism, and representation.
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