NASHVILLE, Tenn. Public health is Shannon Markus, MD, MPH’s passion. Her primary goal – from her earliest days in college to her current Fellowship with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance (MVA) – is helping the most vulnerable. To that end, she plans to dedicate herself to the MVA’s community-engaged research initiatives. Those efforts and their goals align with her own ambitions in a significant way.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Latino community is affected disproportionately by COVID-19. News outlets report leaders and lawmakers calling its impact “catastrophic.” In the state of Tennessee, one-third of residents who test positive for the coronavirus are Hispanic, even though only 5.6 percent of the population is Hispanic.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The responsibility for trust often lands on possible research participants, rather than researchers. Many frame discussions around lack of trust as something that needs to change among those participants. However, there is a definite need for researchers and research institutions to demonstrate they are, in fact, trustworthy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Neely Williams, MDiv, an ambassador for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), described her work as a Patient Partner Researcher during PCORI’s Ambassador Coffee Break on June 25, 2020.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. A research team at Meharry Medical College (MMC) has been approved for a $1.4 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study Diabetes Medical Nutrition Therapy in Southeastern African-American Women.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The efforts and accomplishments of the All of Us (AoU) Research Program Engagement Core took center stage on June 16, 2020, during a panel discussion entitled ”Engaging Participants as Partners: ELSI Considerations in Large-Scale Precision Medicine Research” for the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Virtual Forum.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Up to 93 percent of human papillomavirus (HPV) cancer cases are preventable with vaccines, and yet vaccination rates among adolescents remain low. Only 51 percent completed the recommended doses in 2018. In Tennessee, only 44 percent did.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Research is the backbone of healthcare advancement. Every significant breakthrough in modern medicine was the result of intense, data-driven research, and new treatments can only develop through its discoveries.
Significant challenges exist, however, particularly with recruitment of underrepresented populations. This contributes to health disparities for underrepresented populations and leads to worsened conditions for already vulnerable groups.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Thanks to Ethnicity & Disease, an international medical journal covering the relationship between ethnicity and health, the Precision Health and Health Disparities Collaborative’s (PMHDC) work will be even more visible to researchers and clinicians studying the ethnic patterns of disease.
