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Increasing Black, Indigenous and People of Color Participation in Research
August 17, 2021 - 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Speakers: Dr. Michele Andrasik (she/her), PhD, is a clinical health psychologist with expertise in implicit bias, historical trauma, and the utilization of Community-Based Participatory Research approaches and Qualitative Research Methods. Dr. Andrasik works to address psychosocial and structural factors associated with HIV risk and STI disparities among marginalized communities in the US. Her efforts have focused on developing collaborative and reciprocal relationships between researchers, community members, and organizations to address existing health disparities. Dr. Andrasik also works to address the impact of stigma on disparities across the HIV care continuum. Dr. Andrasik does this work because ensuring the health and wellbeing of marginalized communities is incredibly important to me and good health means health and wellbeing for all.
Dr. Rueben C. Warren, PhD, is currently the Director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care and Professor of Bioethics at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He is also former Director of the Institute for Faith-Health Leadership and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Medicine and Ethics at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, GA. From 1988 to 1997, Dr. Warren served as Associate Director for Minority Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From 1997 to 2004, he was Associate Director for Urban Affairs at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Warren served part-time as the Director of Infrastructure Development for the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. From 2004 to 2009, he was on leave from the National Center for Environmental Health-CDC/ATSDR) in Atlanta, where he served as Associate Director for Environmental Justice. As Associate Director at CDC/ATSDR Dr. Warren had lead agency responsibility for Environmental Justice and Minority Health.
Summary:
- Discussion of efforts to ensure inclusion in the COVID-19 vaccine trials and equity in Vaccine distribution
- Efforts to increase the BIPOC scientific workforce
- Ongoing efforts to increase equity and inclusion through self-awareness and efforts to address institutional bias
