Diversity and inclusion for the All of Us research program: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: The All of Us Research Program (All of Us) is a national effort to accelerate health research by exploring the relationship between lifestyle, environment, and genetics. It is set to become one of the largest research efforts in U.S. history, aiming to build a national resource of data from at least one million participants. All of Us aims to address the need for more diversity in research and set the stage for that diversity to be leveraged in precision medicine research to come. This paper describes how the program assessed demographic characteristics of participants who have enrolled in other U.S. biomedical research cohorts to better understand which groups are traditionally represented or underrepresented in biomedical research. We 1) reviewed the enrollment characteristics of nationa

SUBMITTER: Mapes BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329113 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature