Science of Diversity in Clinical Trials

Collaborating Institution:
Morehouse School of Medicine

Research Focus:
Diversity & Inclusion in cardioVascular trials through Enrollment and education Resulting in Sustainable Equity: DIVERSE

Center Directors:

Eldrin Lewis, MD, MPH, FAHA
Priscilla Pemu, MD, MSCR

Principal Investigators:

Latha Palaniappan, MD
Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD, FAHA
Trial of sites to increase diversity in clinical trials (TOTAL)

Paul Wang, MD
Melvin Echols, MD
Trials with Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (TIDE)

Collaborating Institution:
University of Hawaii
Washington State University

Research Focus:
Integrated Community Engaged, mHealth, and Data Science to Enhance Clinical Trial Diversity and Cardiometabolic Health

Center Directors:

Tzung Hsiai, MD
Keith Norris, MD, PhD
Joseph Kaholokula, PhD

Principal Investigators:

Zhaoping Li, MD
Arleen Brown, MD, PhD
Alejandra Casillas, MD, MSHS
Improving participation in multi-ethnic populations to personalized dietary to mitigate cardiometabolic diseases

Joseph Kaholokula, PhD
Claire Townsend Ing, MPH, DrPH
Improving Participation in Cardiometabolic-related Trials for Indigenous Pacific Peoples

Amanda Boyd, PhD
Research is Ceremony: Increasing American Indian clinical trial participation to improve cardiometabolic health

Collaborating Institution:
Emory University

Research Focus:
Behavioral Economics to Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness (BETTER)

Center Directors:

Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, MBE

Principal Investigators:

Neal Dickert, MD, PhD
Modele O. Ogunniyi, MD, MPH
Testing promising behavioral economic interventions to promote enrollment diversity in cardiovascular clinical trials

Alanna Morris, MD, MSc
Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD
Testing promising behavioral economic interventions to promote enrollment diversity in cardiovascular cohort studies

Meghan Lane-Fall, MD
Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE
Identifying facilitators and barriers of diversity and representativeness in RCTs

Collaborating Institution:
Howard University

Research Focus:
Alzheimer’s Trial Recruitment Innovation Lab: Reducing Bottlenecks and Achieving Diversity

Center Directors:

Rema Raman, PhD
Jevay Grooms, PhD

Principal Investigators:

Mireille Jacobson, PhD
Doris P Molina-Henry, PhD
Diverse clinical trial participation using data-driven and evidence-based participant recruitment and retention science

Cecily Jenkins, PhD
Jessica Ho, PhD
Evaluating innovative, unsupervised, web-based cognitive assessments to accelerate pre-clinical AD trial engagement

Collaborating Institution:
Morgan State University
University of Vermont

Research Focus:
Improving Participation Among diverse populations in Cardiovascular clinical Trials (IMPACT)

Center Directors:

Erin Michos, MD, MHS

Principal Investigators:

Cheryl Himmelfarb, PhD, RN
Hailey Miller, PhD, RN
Developing a learning COmmunity to increase eNgagemeNt and Enrollment in cardiovascular Clinical Trials (CONNECT)

Timothy Plante, MD, MHS
Digital Advertisements for Inclusive Trial Accrual (DAITA)

Collaborating Institution:
Morehouse School of Medicine

Research Focus:
Training Researchers to Advance Inclusion Networks (TRAIN)

Training Directors:

Hannah Valantine, MD, MBBS
Priscilla Pemu, MD, MSCR