The Urgency of Justice in Research: Beyond COVID-19

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi; Jonathan D Jackson; Consuelo H Wilkins

doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2020.11.004

The Urgency of Justice in Research: Beyond COVID-19

Trends Mol Med. 2021 Feb;27(2):97-100. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2020.11.004. Epub 2020 Nov 17.

Authors

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi¹, Jonathan D Jackson², Consuelo H Wilkins³

Affiliations

¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA. Electronic address: algilmore@wisc.edu.
² Community Access, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Office of Health Equity, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TS, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TS, USA.

Abstract

The striking imbalance between disease incidence and mortality among minorities across health conditions, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highlights their under-inclusion in research. Here, we propose actions that can be adopted by the biomedical scientific community to address long-standing ethical and scientific barriers to equitable representation of diverse populations in research.

Keywords: community engagement; health disparities; health inequities; research inclusion; research representation.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

American Indian or Alaska Native
Black or African American
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Epidemiologic Research Design*
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Incidence
Mortality
Research
SARS-CoV-2
Social Justice / trends

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding