This trust that once was given unconditionally now must be earned. President Clinton apologized to the men who actually suffered, and they accepted the apology. While a lot of people are still understandably angry over what happened in the Tuskegee study, we need to move forward. In order to eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities, we have to increase the participation of women and minorities in clinical and public health research. Let's take the example of breast cancer.
More white women develop breast cancer than black women, but more black women die from it.
In order to understand why this disparity exists, black women need to be part of research studies. To answer these questions, we need to conduct research. That's my pitch. Those kinds of disparities disappear among blacks and whites who participate in clinical research trials. Because everybody's getting the same kind of treatment.