Скачать или смотреть The Socio-Environmental Toll on Brain Health in Communities of Color | Dr. Kacie Deters

Dr. Kacie Deters (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Early in her research career, Dr. Deters first observed that risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease and cognitive impairment impact communities of color differently than white communities, “The Black community has a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease, the second highest group is those who are Hispanic or are Latino, and yet they’re the ones who are typically excluded from a lot of our research.” Since then, she has dedicated her research to tackling this disparity by emphasizing health inequities and inspiring other researchers to change their views on including Black and Brown communities in their research. While cultural barriers exist in Black and Brown communities, she suggests that researchers be thoughtful in considering participants’ lived experiences and systemic risk factors when designing research studies. Dr. Deter asks, “How are we going to truly identify risk factors or predictors for disease if we’re continually comparing them to a group that has a completely different lived experience, including the socioeconomic overall access to healthcare?” Dr. Deters sees research as an opportunity to drive policy change to diminish the mental health disparities seen in marginalized communities, “There has to be policy change at the government level—whether it’s within cities, state, national—in order to ultimately help alleviate some of these disparity-causing factors for Black and Brown communities.”

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