Spectrum Public Affairs Senior Director Courtney Gray Haupt shared with me that one of her final activities for the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), her former employer, was to work on the "Tuskegee: A Cloud Over Research" article that appeared in the September 30, 2008 WASHINGTON POST Health section about the challenges recruiting minority populations to clinical trials.
Courtney: "ACRO collaborated on the piece with the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) , a wonderful nonprofit based in Boston focused on promoting greater awareness and understanding of clinical research participation and the role it plays in public health."
Thanks for giving us this insight, Courtney. Many of us here at Spectrum were involved with launching the drug that was approved by the FDA in 2005 for the treatment of heart failure in African Americans, as the article discusses. The issues of clinical trial recruiting and correcting disparities in minority health care are near and dear to us.
- John Seng, Founder and President
