The Quiet Crisis: Racial Disparities in Black Health Care
Channel: Coalition of Black Excellence
Date: 2020-07-01

At the Coalition of Black Excellence (CBE) Summit Melanie Gross, Assistant General Counsel and Practice Group Leader at Genentech, moderates a panel featuring  Dr. Owen Garrick, President and CEO of Bridge Clinical Research, Quita Highsmith, Head of Reliance and Advocacy Relations at Genentech, and Dr. John Carpten, Professor and Chair of Department of Translational Genomics at the University of Southern California focuses on how communities  can narrow the gap in racial disparities and increase participation in clinical research.

Dr. Carpten shares some of the barriers that hinder Black community participation in clinical research, including not having the right people and resources to carry out the research, lack of education on the need to participate, and insufficient support offered to the Black organizations in the field. Dr. Garrick offers that it is important to make people aware of the risks and benefits of participation. Panelists emphasize the need for a representative population of Black volunteer patients in trials, and doctors who see 80 percent to 90 percent African-American men everyday in their clinic to help  address the racial bias that exists among physicians and practitioners. 

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