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The FDA Initiative to Assure Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Clinical Trials
Eli Y. Adashi and I. Glenn Cohen
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine February 2023, jabfm.2022.220290R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.220290R1
Eli Y. Adashi
From the Professor of Medical Science, Former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI (EYA); Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (IGC).
MD, MS,I. Glenn Cohen
From the Professor of Medical Science, Former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI (EYA); Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (IGC).
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The FDA Initiative to Assure Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Clinical Trials
Eli Y. Adashi, I. Glenn Cohen
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Feb 2023, jabfm.2022.220290R1; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220290R1
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