Consortium For Black Health Research And Clinical Trials
Consortium for Black Health Research and Clinical Trials
What Is The Purpose of The Consortium
The broadly practiced approach to medical research and clinical trials in this country has been to focus on the majority population, and then try to retrofit how the findings affect minority populations of black and brown people. This approach is both too time-consuming and ineffective.
For example, when researchers want to understand why people living in so-called “blue zones” have a longer life expectancy, researchers go to those geographical areas to determine from those relatively small populations what they can learn about why their longevity is longer.
The consortium is an extension platform for other consortium relationships, collaborations, and partnerships with an emphasis on Black Health and Clinical trials that can enhance their outcomes in the search for preventions, treatments, and cures.
This platform encourages and provides the capacity for awareness of projects, connecting on interest, enhancing and advancing progress, exploring collaborations, and visual conferencing while sharing intellect, resources, and the vision for preventions, treatments, and cures.
Founder
Dr. Romeo P. Stockett, MPH, PhD, a native of Washington DC, has been engaged in education, public health, and health equity for more than 50 years of his professional life. He is a retired US Air Force officer and has since served in many and varied public health leadership roles. He has held leadership positions at every level of public health and educational arenas, including federal, state, county, local, rural, and international.
Dr. Stockett’s educational experiences have been equally comprehensive, having taught at the University the Maryland, St Joseph University and Morehouse School of Medicine while serving at the Department of Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, County Director of School Health, The State Office of Vital Records and numerous lecturing and consulting roles. read more
“Fostering targeted research and clinical trials on the populations most impacted to achieve enhanced efficacy of the results”