NAF Expedition

Health Equity by MERCK

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The Health Equity Expedition has been adapted from the KnoPro Health Equity Challenge launched nationally in the fall of 2023. The challenge was created with generous support from MERCK.

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Health Equity Challenge Historically, clinical research has not reflected the diverse population of the United States when it comes to race, ethnicity, disability status, and other important factors. This leads to disproportionate health outcomes that can cost lives. How might we help to ensure that medical research participation is more representative of the U.S. population?

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The Impact of Henrietta Lacks Meet Henrietta Lacks an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.