Quashing decades of structural racism in the biomedical research space will require running a marathon, not a sprint. But it’s a race Monica Webb Hooper and Marie Bernard say they plan to help win.
“The change may be incremental, but we already are starting to see some change, even in the sense that the conversations that have never happened before are happening,” Webb Hooper, the deputy director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, said in a recent interview.
“That’s the first step of what will be a long process that we will have to stay persistent ...