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Are you a cancer researcher?
You’re invited to join a free webinar to learn more recruiting minorities into clinical research.
The webinar, which is at 11 a.m. CST (9 a.m. PST) on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, is hosted by Redes En Acción, a Latino cancer research network funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and based at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, to highlight critical challenges that must be addressed to accelerate the advancement of the science of recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse populations into clinical studies.
For the webinar, Redes researchers will present evidence of the relative lack of attention by researchers to recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse populations and what we know about effective methods. Then, data will be given on the inadequacy of dedicated funding to advance systematically this field. To begin to address these challenges, researchers will describe strategies used by the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research and other NIA-funded programs to advance the science of recruitment and retention.
Finally, researchers will propose broad recommendations for generating a body of evidence on successful methods of recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse populations in clinical research.
By The Numbers
25.1
percent
of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage
