Fireside: Building Trust Through Scientific Reevaluation and Implementation of Clinical Algorithms

In this moderated conversation, research leaders from the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Health Administration engaged in an informal dialogue about how the research and clinical communities need to build trust to embrace the shift away from the use of race as a biologic construct in clinical algorithms, expand data sets to assess social drivers and build linkages between research, clinical practice and system-level implementation.

Moderator:
Cynthia Delgado, M.D., Professor, University of California, San Francisco Department of Medicine

Speakers:
Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
Carolyn Clancy, M.D., MACP, Deputy Undersecretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

This fireside chat was part of the Doris Duke Foundation and Council of Medical Specialty Societies' (CMSS) announcement of Encoding Equity in Clinical Research & Practice: Rethinking Race in Clinical Algorithms at the National Academy of Medicine on June 21, 2024. This alliance, supported by a $3 million grant to and led by CMSS, aims to drive scientific rigor and health equity by examining the use of race in clinical algorithms.

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