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by Abbey Slattery May 7, 2021 .
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Clinical health trials are a key step in ensuring that new treatments and drugs are safe and effective for the general public. The participants in these trials are intended to represent the population that will be using the drug, but many are severely lacking in diversity.
Data from the United States Food and Drug Administration shows African-Americans only account for 5 percent of clinical trial participants, while Latino Americans make up just 1 percent.
For many minorities, that means the side effects of certain medications aren’t known before they’re released to the general population.
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CHAPEL HILL – UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Entrepreneurship (Eship) Center, an affiliated center of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, announced Tuesday that affiliated-faculty at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (Duke I&E) are participating with the Eship Center, Opportunity Hub (OHUB) and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The goal of this collaboration and engagement from multiple institutions is to address issues like DEI at a systemic organizational level, and to create more equitable ecosystems through the delivery of education, best practices, and actionable frameworks.
Stanford and Duke join certification program to boost diversity education with investors and the C-suite
A partnership between the University of North Carolina’s Kenan Flagler Entrepreneurship Center, the Opportunity Hub and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, set up to improve representation and support of diverse founders in the tech industry, is getting more heavy-hitting partners from Duke and Stanford.
As part of the partnership, faculty affiliated with Stanford and Duke will join educators to staff the DEIS Practicum Certificate and Black Technology Ecosystem Investment Certificate programs, which, respectively, try to address ways in which management can engage in diversity and inclusion in a systemic way beyond simply human resources hires and equity in compensation and ways in which more Black investors can become involved in backing startups.
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