Health Equity Forum

For Sickle Cell Awareness Month, Dr. Christine Lee speaks with CAPT David Wong about his ongoing work at HHS to address sickle cell disease.

We speak with Susan Winckler and Carla Rodriguez of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA about the Real-World Accelerator to Improve the Standard of collection and curation of race and ethnicity data in healthcare (RAISE).

For Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Dr. Christine Lee speaks with Dr. Todd Seto and Dr. Deborah Taira about their research with the Hawaii Health Equity Research and Outreach Network, also known as Hawaii HERON.

For Native American Heritage Month, RDML Araojo speaks with Stephine “Steph” Poston and Dr. Myra Parker on their research concerning perceptions of clinical trials in American Indian communities in the Northern Plains.

For National Minority Health Month, we discuss health equity and emerging technologies with Dr. Jeff Shuren, Director of the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

In this episode we will talk about diversity in Hepatitis B clinical trials with Dr. Chari Cohen and Dr. Yasmin Ibrahim from the Hepatitis B Foundation.

In this episode we will be discussing COVID-19 vaccine boosters with FDA Commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf.

In this episode we will continue our conversation with Dr. Susan Mayne, Director of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

In this episode, we’ll be talking about participation in lupus clinical trials and the importance of diversity in lupus clinical trials with RADM Felicia Collins, Director of the Office of Minority Health in the Department of Health and Human Services.