Advocacy

Health Disparities Initiatives

Society Recommends FDA Require Inclusion of Minorities in Drug Trials

A White Paper from The Endocrine Society

Endorsing Organizations (view list of organizations that have endorsed the Society's white paper)

minority-clinicaltrialsWhite Paper Writing Group:
Lawrence Agodoa, Alfonso J. Alanis, Maria Alexander-Bridges*, Naomi Bitow, Loretta L. Doan, G. Alexander Fleming, Ken Getz, Brian K. Gibbs, and Deborah Prothrow-Stith

White Paper Contributors:
Rhonda Bentley-Lewis and Stephanie B. Kutler

Critical Review of White Paper:
Owen Garrick, James Gavin III, Robert Harrison, Rachel Wagman, Bill Wishner
The Endocrine Society’s Advocacy and Public Outreach Core Committee and Corporate Liaison Board

*Project leader and corresponding author

In addition to the white paper writing group and contributors, The Endocrine Society’s Task Force on Increasing Minority Participation in Clinical Research comprised other members who contributed to the discussion and generation of concepts. For a complete list of task force members click here.

NIH Health Disparities Poster

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