DIVERSITY, EQUALITY & INCLUSION


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programmes that can be used by historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and clinics that cater to underrepresented communities.


In addition, the Diversity in Clinical Trials


initiative will offer grants for the recruitment and training of research coordinators and data managers, as well as support for the launch of research programmes.


Scholarships and innovative tools The first pilot project to be facilitated by the grant will work to bring additional people from underrepresented groups into clinical trials. In the first year of the initiative, Abbott


founded a Diversity in Clinical Trials Medical Advisory Board, an internal steering committee, among others. The firm has also provided $5


million in grants to sponsor more than 300 scholarships at the four HBCU medical schools, the National Black Nurses Association and the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. Abbott Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics


executive vice-president and Diversity in Clinical Trials steering committee co-executive sponsor Andrea Wainer said: “Clinical trials drive new, innovative tools to fight diseases, and overcoming barriers to access to clinical trials for underrepresented communities is critical to improving health equity. “Abbott has been focused on breaking down barriers and implementing new, sustainable partnerships and programmes to drive even more diversity in our clinical trials, and to ensure trials are offered in more places to reach underserved areas.”


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