Gary Puckrein is the founding president and chief executive officer of the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), a non-profit health care research, education, and advocacy organization headquartered in Washington. The mission of NMQF is to reduce patient risk by assuring optimal care for all. NMQF conducts evidence-based, data-driven initiatives to eliminate premature death and preventable illness. Its vision is an American health services research, delivery, and financing system whose operating principle is to decrease patient risk for amenable morbidity and mortality while improving quality of life.
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to grapple with a long-standing truth: that poor diversity in early and late stage medical research remains a major threat to health equ...