On January 15th, Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD, presented an overview of the issues of race and racism in research in a RCMAR Coordinating Center-sponsored webinar. In his talk, Dr. Norris discussed ways forward for conducting and reporting research practices that include race/ethnicity with a sensitivity to the use of race/ethnicity as a proxy for ancestral gene polymorphism vs. a marker of society and the historic and contemporary role of racism and societal inequities on health to move toward justice and elimination of ubiquitous influence of racism in how we conduct and interpret our research.
