More Than Socially Fair or Economically Just – It’s Better Science

Who determines what constitutes a representative, appropriately diverse population for a clinical trial – and how? In this exclusive Global Forum podcast, Dr. Sam Oh, Director of Epidemiology, Asthma Collaboratory at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, previews the DIAmond session Does Diversity Matter in Clinical Trials? which he will help lead at our DIA 2017 Global Annual Meeting. “From 1993 to 2013, we found that less than five percent of NIH-funded studies of respiratory diseases included populations of non-European descent,” he explains. “If only two percent of cancer clinical trials and less than five percent of pulmonary studies have studied enough minorities to provide useful information, we’re missing half of the scientific pie; from an economic and fairness perspective, a growing proportion of Americans are not fully benefitting from the medical and scientific discoveries that they are funding through their tax dollars.” Register to attend our DIA 2017 Global Annual Meeting in Chicago or our Clinical & Regulatory Operational Excellence Forum in Europe.