Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Celebrating Pioneering Black Scientists In the early 1900s, Alice Ball, a University of Hawaii student, revolutionized the treatment for Hansen's Disease (leprosy) while working on her Master’s degree in chemistry by developing a method to isolate the active compounds of Chaulmoogra oil, creating an injectable and absorbable solution. This became…

Earlier this year, U.S. Congress passed a law that requires the submission of a diversity plan for late-stage drug trials and the development of guidance to “encourage meaningful diversity among clinical trial participants, including with respect to race, ethnicity, age, sex, and geographic location, as appropriate.” This law marks a big step…

No One Is Free Until We Are All Free: Honoring Juneteenth In 1939, when Opal Lee was 12, a mob of 500 white supremacists set fire to her family home. At the time, Opal lived in a predominantly white neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas. Her home was destroyed and no…

As part of our five-part series on Making Black Lives Matter In Health Care, we seek to uncover facts and share insights on the racial disparities impacting health, with a particular focus on the role of genetics and genomics. By bringing light to these issues, we hope to be a…

Trans-Inclusive Genetic Counseling: You deserve gender-affirming genetics care. As our society continues to grow in acceptance and understanding, increasing numbers of individuals are able to come out as transgender. According to the 2015 Transgender Survey, approximately 0.6% of the US population, about 1.4 million Americans, identifies as transgender.  Among young…

Racism is a public health crisis. And no medical specialty is immune from disparities in care for marginalized people, particularly for Black, Latino/a and Indigenous patients. This issue has come into sharp focus during the last six months, first from the significant disparities in the number of cases and outcomes…