Health Disparities
Systemic racism in the U.S. has shaped the country’s health care and biomedical research systems. We see evidence in the disparities in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups, an academic research enterprise that doesn’t capitalize on the country’s diverse pool of talent to develop new scientists, and a long and warranted history of mistrust between historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups and the broader biomedical ecosystem
Mattlyn Young, 23, is the first Morgan State University student to work as an intern in the Lieber Institute’s labs through the AANRI.
She is studying for her master’s degree at Morgan State University, and during her time at the Lieber Institute, she helped analyze DNA from people with African ancestry.
People of African descent are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems and twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease 81% of large-scale genomic datasets are of European descent, though this group makes up less than 16% of the world population
Each partner in the AANRI plays a critical and equal role focused on the following pillars:
