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Issue 25 | February 2024

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As Black History Month comes to a close, we want to highlight the breakthroughs and impact of the incredible people and organizations working to increase science diversity, including the historically Black medical colleges and universities we’ve partnered with for the Accelerate Precision Health program.

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Charles Drew University College of Medicine, Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine are uniquely equipped and experienced to guide medical research that will directly impact Black communities and generate new scientific knowledge to advance genomics and precision health ([link removed] ) — an approach to clinical care that accounts for differences in people’s genes, environments and lifestyle.

If you want to learn more about these fields, explore the guide ([link removed] ) we created with the help of Dr. Hannah Valentine, a senior science advisor at CZI.

In it, she shares, “CZI’s mission to cure, prevent or manage all diseases implies all diseases in all people. And so, this is what brings us into the idea of precision health in that if we are going to be successful in that mission, we then must be using these tools in all groups and in all kinds of research, especially the most fundamental research.”

Since Accelerate Precision Health’s launch in 2022, our partner institutions have already begun to address gaps in genomics.

Charles Drew University is taking steps to increase diversity in the genetic counseling workforce — a profession that supports people who have or may be at risk for genetic disorders.

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