A Diverse Physician-Scientist Pipeline to Fight Structural Racism

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2020 Sep 14

PMID 32926165

Citations 5

Authors

Boghuma K Titanji

Talia H Swartz

Affiliations

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Abstract

Translational research plays a pivotal role in leveraging good science to serve humanity. Structural racism and a lack of diversity severely limit our potential as scientists to exert a maximum impact. This moment calls for a renewed commitment to ridding science of racism and bias and promoting diversity, which makes us more effective at innovating and delivering therapeutics to the patients we serve.

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