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Item Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card: An evaluation of states’ capacity to address racial and ethnic health disparities.(2005) Trivedi, Amal N; Gibbs, Brian; Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie; Ayanian, John Z; Prothrow-Stith, DeborahA state minority health policy report card may provide an important tool for evaluating and promoting state policies to reduce health disparities. This study develops criteria that can form the basis of such a state report card and assesses the performance of all fifty states on these measures. The results indicate wide variation among states, with geographic region being a significant predictor of performance on all four measures. Future research should be conducted on other predictors of state variation in minority health policy and connections between state policy and health outcomes for minorities.Item Increasing Minority Participation in Clinical Research(2007) Agodoa, Lawrence; Alanis, Alfonso J.; Alexander-Bridges, Maria; Doan, Loretta L.; Fleming, G. Alexander; Getz, Ken; Gibbs, Brian K.; Prothrow-Stith, DeborahOur goal is to ensure that clinical research supporting 1) the safety and efficacy of products for labeling purposes and 2) the validity of biomarkers commonly used to assess risk and to design therapeutic strategies is based on data sufficient for statistical power and derived from diverse subpopulations. It is widely recognized that data supporting therapeutic options for women and minorities have been deficient because these groups were not previously included in clinical trials. Although the combined efforts of Congress, the Office of Women’s Health at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Office of Research on Women’s Health…