Date: Friday, April 12th, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom Live Stream at https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/527229623
Guest Speakers: Carla D. Williams, Ph.D. & Florencia Gonzalez, M.P.H.
Topic: "Measures & Meaning: Emerging practices for use intersectional identity data and structural determinants of health indicators in clinical research"
Dr. Carla Williams serves as Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Howard University and Director of the Howard University Cancer Center. She leads community engagement for our Georgetown Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science for the Howard University Research Centers in Minority Institutions and co-leads the Howard-Georgetown Collaborative Partnership in Cancer Research. Her discipline-spanning, community-engaged, and collaborative research has been supported by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Center for Disease Control Prevention) CDC, the DC Department of Health and several foundations with a sustained focus on the combined goals of reducing health disparities, engaging communities, and building teams to improve population health.
Dr. Florencia Gonzalez is Director for the Inclusion of Diverse Populations Core under Georgetown Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS). She specializes in supporting research teams with strategic planning for inclusion of underrepresented groups in health research. She also leads efforts to promote equitable inclusion of people with limited English proficiency (LEP) in studies.
Their talk will discuss the benefits and challenges of collecting and using expanded demographic measures of individual identity and area-level measures to enhance the precision, rigor, and translation of clinical and translational research to better promote health equity.
For more information, please contact research@medstar.net or visit www.georgetownhowardctsa.org.
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