
Keeping Schools Closed Next Fall Could Worsen Science’s Diversity Problem
But a number of new initiatives might mitigate the damage
Briana Christophers is an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program in New York City. Besides tweeting regularly about science advocacy, medical education, diversity, and developmental biology @BriChristophers, she has been published in Academic Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation and in-Training.
But a number of new initiatives might mitigate the damage
To build trust with traditionally underserved groups, health officials need to craft their messaging in a much more culturally sensitive way
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