It Should Not Require a Pandemic to Make Community Engagement in Research Leadership Essential, not Optional

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
5 February 2021
Kevin Grumbach, Linda B. Cottler,
Jen Brown, Monique LeSarre, et al.
Efforts to move community engagement in research from marginalized to mainstream include the NIH requiring community engagement programs in all Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs). However, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how little these efforts have changed the dominant culture of clinical research.
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The Coming Era Of Precision Health

HealthAffairs
February 2021
Kathryn Phillips
There's growing interest in a concept called “precision health,” focusing on preventing disease before it starts, using the latest technological advances to develop the tools to do so. In a new book, Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, & Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being, Lloyd Minor (dean of the School of Medicine at Stanford University) & Matthew Rees (president of Geonomica) lay out an insightful vision for precision health.
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Latina Mothers’ Perspectives on Adverse Experiences and Protection of
Latinx Youth in an Agricultural Community

Journal of Adolescent Health
1 February 2021
Deepika D. Parmar, Elodia Caballero,
Marissa Raymond-Flesch, et al.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are a measure of childhood toxic stress with a dose-dependent relationship with many health outcomes in adulthood. While ACEs measure broad categories of neglect, abuse, and family dysfunction that have been validated across diverse populations, they don't capture the trauma that some adolescents experience as a result of race, ethnicity, immigration, & family history.
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