Having a diverse pool of organ donors and clinical trial volunteers can help reduce racial disparities in healthcare.
In this video, learn why it’s beneficial for Black Americans to participate in clinical trials and organ donation, according to Karla Robinson, MD, Medical Editor at GoodRx Health, and Robert Robinson, III, MD, Internist in Charlotte, NC.
Karla Robinson, MD is a medical editor for GoodRx and is a licensed, board-certified family physician. She received her medical degree from Rush Medical College and completed her training at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago.
Robert C. Robinson, III, MD is a board-certified, licensed internal medicine physician with almost two decades of experience and a focus in hospitalist medicine.
References
Donate Life America. (n.d.). Race, ethnicity & donation.
Grossi, A. A., et al. (2023). Taking a “care pathway/whole systems” approach to equality diversity inclusion (EDI) in organ donation and transplantation in relation to the needs of “ethnic/racial/migraint” minority communities: A statement and a call to action. Transplant International.
Health Resources & Services Administration. (2024). Organ donation statistics.
National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. (2024). Diversity and inclusion in clinical trials.
U.S. Food & Drug Administration. (2022). Clinical trial diversity.
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