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More NewsCornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant for Research on Technology and Home Health Aides
September 12, 2019
Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant that will fund interdisciplinary research on…
Programs Empower Underrepresented Student Entrepreneurs
September 6, 2019
Women and underrepresented minority entrepreneurs are beginning to close the gap with their white male counterparts in startup rates overall,…
Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today.
September 5, 2019
The excruciatingly painful medical experiments went on until his body was disfigured by a network of scars. John Brown, an enslaved…
Call for Manuscripts on Structural Racism/ Discrimination
September 5, 2019
NIMHD is sponsoring a special issue of Ethnicity & Disease, "Structural Racism and Discrimination: Impact on Minority Health and Health Disparities,"…
Trends in Racial/Ethnic Representation Among US Medical Students
September 5, 2019
In this cross-sectional study of self-reported race/ethnicity of US medical school matriculants from 2002 to 2017, numbers and proportions of…
Underserved populations with missing race ethnicity data differ significantly from those with structured race/ethnicity documentation
August 22, 2019
Structured EHR data for race and ethnicity are subject to data quality issues. Supplementing structured EHR race data with NLP-derived…
