Opinion: Conversations about improving prenatal care must include transgender and gender diverse birthing people
I dreamed of having children from a young age — so much so that I…
Category: diversity and inclusion
Opinion: The importance of reducing the financial burden of participating in clinical trials
Scientific advancements have helped millions of people living with cancer, heart disease, arthritis, obesity, and…
Opinion: In drug development, diversity must be extended to preclinical research
The pharmaceutical industry has long operated on a one-size-fits-all model, developing drugs primarily tested on,…
Opinion: When life mirrors research: What a fall on the ice taught me about being Black and in pain
As I hurried to an important meeting about my Ph.D. dissertation one day in 2015,…
Opinion: Diversity statements should not be required for federal STEMM grant funding
Federally funded research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) is a crown jewel…
Massive study of veterans’ DNA shows how diversity can help researchers decipher the genome
An expansive new study offers clear evidence that sequencing the genomes of diverse populations can…
Opinion: What readers have to say about long Covid, FDA and diversity, and more
First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and maybe even provocative articles about the…
FDA issues long-awaited draft guidance for enrolling more people of color in clinical trials
The Food and Drug Administration has drafted guidance aimed at getting drug companies and medical…
Opinion: FDA: Don’t rush publishing your diversity guidance plan. Take your time and do it right
When Congress passed the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA) in December 2022, it…
Walgreens executive says it is ‘doubling down’ on recruiting customers into clinical trials
LOS ANGELES – For the past two years, Walgreens has tried to leverage its nationwide…
STAT+: Medical device trials still don’t enroll enough women, study finds
Women have always been underrepresented in medical research. A new study reveals that not much…
NIH-funded clinical trials often miss racial, gender diversity enrollment goals, report finds
WASHINGTON — Clinical trials that the National Institutes of Health funds often enroll fewer Black…
STAT+: FDA poised to publish guidelines for clinical trial diversity
The Food and Drug Administration is poised to tell drug and medical device makers how…
The only tribal medical school in the U.S. graduates its first Native American doctors
There are so few Indigenous physicians in the United States — just 0.3% of doctors…
Opinion: STAT+: How AI can help satisfy FDA’s drug, device diversity requirements
The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 (FDORA), which was passed as part…
Opinion: Practicing medicine at a predominantly Black institution gave me the gift I didn’t realize I needed
“You have a big voice, Dr. Grubbs,” the clinic manager said. I flinched. The last…
Opinion: I saw the promise of diversity efforts in health care. A moment later I saw its critical gaps
Health care was once moderately immune to the anti-diversity, anti-equity, and anti-inclusion craze. Not anymore….
Opinion: Disabled scientists are often left out of academia. The NIH can help change that
Despite being the largest minority in the nation, disabled people like us have been structurally…
Opinion: Free tuition won’t fix medicine’s diversity problem without admissions reform
Medical students at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City gathered last week…
Opinion: Missing data is making it difficult for the pharmaceutical industry to help LGBTQ+ people
Lack of health data on LGBTQ+ people has real-world consequences. A participant in a 2020…
Opinion: The emergency room is where the United States’ social problems come home to roost
From “Legacy” by Uché Blackstock, M.D., published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group,…
Opinion: After 20 years in rehabilitation research, my young daughter’s traumatic brain injury transformed my mind and my career
In the spring of 2020, my almost 4-year-old daughter Livie sustained a severe traumatic brain…
Opinion: Pumping milk at JPM was a nightmare. It’s part of a bigger problem in the industry
Since having a baby 10 months ago, I’ve learned many things. Chief among them: Pumping…
Violet CEO on measuring clinician inclusiveness: ‘It’s almost like a credit score’
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Gaurang Choksi is the founder and CEO of Violet, a health equity…
Morning Rounds: Why health care costs are nearly a fifth of the GDP
Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Sign up for our…
Opinion: Racism infects neuroscience’s past and present. What about its future?
De-Shaine Murray is working at the cutting edge of neurotechnology. As a postdoctoral fellow at…
Opinion: There’s a public health crisis lurking in our data: the Census option ‘some other race’
According to the 2020 Census, the second most common race in America, after white, is…
Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients
Oliver McGowan was 18 years old when he was hospitalized in England with recurrent seizures…
Opinion: After living with sickle cell disease for 39 years, I’m both excited and skeptical about the newly approved gene therapies
For 39 years, I have lived with sickle cell disease. As of late, the sickle…
Opinion: Neuroscience has to grapple with a long legacy of racism if it wants to move into the future
Many parts of neuroscience research have a race problem. Black people are often excluded from…
Opinion: The next Census could undercount the number of disabled Americans by 20 million
About 20 million disabled people will be erased if the U.S. Census Bureau moves forward…
Invisible in the data: Broad ‘Asian American’ category obscures health disparities
They have roots in 50 countries that cover more than half of the globe’s surface….
Opinion: The end of affirmative action means it’s time to revise pre-med requirements
Luz (not her real name) could be a great doctor. A Latina student from Arizona,…
Opinion: The case against age limits for politicians
A recent poll from YouGov/CBS News showed that 77% of respondents said that there should…
STAT Virtual Event | How to Increase Diversity in Clinical Trials: Strategies & Tools
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. …
Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?
In the wake of growing alarm over the disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality in…
What could fix cancer clinical trials’ longstanding diversity problem?
There’s a diversity problem in cancer clinical trials, and few know this better than Stephanie…
With affirmative action off the table, medical schools plan new diversity tactics
“Lots of scrambling on the ground.” That’s how Consuelo Wilkins, the senior associate dean for…
An effort to diversify genetic research finds new variant for Parkinson’s disease in African populations
A group of Nigerian, British, and U.S. doctors have discovered a genetic variant that increases…
How the first Native Hawaiian psychiatrist set a course for diversifying medicine
Benjamin Young didn’t set out to be the first Native Hawaiian psychiatrist. Nor did he…
Opinion: How to take care of trans patients in hospice
In the United States, more than 1.6 million people identify as transgender. Of these, more…
Medical illustrations neglect people with dark skin. A Nigerian doctor-to-be is working to change that
Medical illustration is both an art and a science. But it can have a huge…
Opinion: The definition of clinical trial diversity must include disabled people
There are people in your life who influence and shape how you see the world….
‘Ancient DNA’ tools and 23andMe database uncover African American ancestries of thousands
New research that combines technology to sequence “ancient DNA” with direct-to-consumer genetic testing has identified…
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Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians
I should be irate and despondent about the Supreme Court’s scrapping of affirmative action in…
Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership
For 15 years, orthopedic surgeon Charles S. Day has been working to highlight the striking…
Opinion: Q&A: Giving voice to patients navigating cancer, rare disease, and more
Health care is about many things — understanding and treating disease, practicing medicine, developing new…
Opinion: I introduced the ADA 35 years ago. Now Congress needs to act to ban a practice that devalues disabled lives
Thirty-five years ago, I was proud to introduce the Americans with Disabilities Act in the…
Opinion: Right-wing politicians are stoking renewed moral panic about HIV
In May, just before Pride Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released news…
What the end of affirmative action means to a fourth-year medical student
When the U.S. Supreme Court released its landmark ruling overturning the use of race-conscious college…