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Wearables like Fitbit may improve a person’s health.

This study is enrolling one million American adults in a comprehensive research program to collect health data from all communities.

Minorities and Chronic Disease: Obstacles to Care By Rachel Reiff Ellis Editors Note: This article is part of a series in partnership with the All of Us Research Program, which collects and studies health data to help scientists identify health trends. More than 80% of participants are from groups that have been historically underrepresented in research.   Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease are among the top health problems in the U.S., but all Americans dont...

 and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana. In her work throughout Louisiana, Ellen McKnight has noticed a worrisome mindset in minority communities. Often, members of the younger generation expect to be diagnosed with chronic conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, cancer and more. They have seen their parents, grandparents and other relatives cope with these conditions for years and assume their future will be similar. But people like McKnight, a nutrition, w...

NIH and Alaska Native leaders identify how to achieve socially responsible genomics research SHARE: A workshop led by Alaska Native people provides a path towards collaborative, community-driven genomics research. In August 2020 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified that Indigenous groups such as Alaska Native and American Indian people were at a higher risk for COVID-19. Researchers are still assessing the full impact of the disproportionate toll because of the limited repr...

* 2National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia 3Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 4Precision Medicine, Platform on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum, San Francisco, CA, United States 5Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 6Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa 7Facultad de Medi...