What Is NIH Doing Now?
Kirschstein identified three broad areas where NIH is concentrating its attack on health gaps: recruitment of more minorities into clinical trials, increasing professional and scientific training, and improving outreach to underserved populations. Active recruitment efforts have resulted in more minorities than ever before participating in NIH-supported clinical trials, she reported. “We expect the number to grow as information about these trials becomes more accessible to many more people through our new clinical trials database,” she said. In addition, she noted that advancing the expertise of faculty and attracting more underrepresented minority students to the sciences and to careers in biomedical research is essential. NIH acting director Dr. Ruth Kirschstein greets former ORMH advisory committee member Dr. Chien Ho (l) of Carnegie Mellon University and current member Dr. Peter Somani of Physician’s Health Policy, Inc. “But success in this area has been painfully slow, a fact we m
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