An Innovative Community‐led Education and Recruitment Program to increase Clinical Research Participation Among Black Americans
Bahar Niknejad, Ethlyn McQueen Gibson, Travonia Brown‐Hughes, Katie McDonough, Ebony Andrews, Deborah Hudson, Hamid Okhravi · 2025
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Bahar Niknejad and co-authors describe a community-led program that recruits Black Americans into Alzheimer's research in a 2025 paper. Black adults are often left out of prevention trials, though the disease hits them hard. One national trial aims for at least fifteen percent of members from groups usually missed. The local team built its outreach with the community, not for it.
The program grew from a partnership between a medical school, a historically Black university, and a local Alzheimer's group. Black community leaders and church leaders formed an advisory board in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Teaching events in trusted settings raised awareness of the disease and the trial. The paper shares a model other sites can copy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bahar Niknejad, Ethlyn McQueen Gibson, Travonia Brown‐Hughes, Katie McDonough, Ebony Andrews, Deborah Hudson, Hamid Okhravi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |