health disparities

Racial and ethnic bias in biomedical research

Those who aren’t scientists or doctors (and maybe even some that are) may not be familiar with some of the history or present day issues around racial and ethnic bias in biomedical research. These are some of the lessons we learn in school, and I was very surprised and

COVID

Concluding remarks to a PhD thesis written during two historic crises in the United States

I just finished a draft of my PhD thesis, and we are allowed to include a “Concluding Remarks” section, in which we offer some perspective on science based on our thesis training. Here is what I wrote:* In the weeks I have taken to write this thesis, turmoil has raged