Improve health equity, diversity and clinical trials: Pay participants
Clinical trials need more Black and Latino people. Everyone should get paid to participate. People of color are barely represented in trials for conditions that impact them in far greater numbers than white people, including diabetes and cancer. Dr. John Whyte Opinion contributor When the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA and in favor of compensating college athletes, I considered how this strategy could help solve the lack of diversity in clinical research and clinical trial enrollment. The two topics may seem unrelated, but they're strikingly similar. Collegiate athletes from low-incom...