Thursday, February 19, 2026

Make equity non-negotiable in clinical research. Really!

Do we need to postpone or even jeopardize clinical research to satisfy DEI demagogues?

"Make equity non-negotiable in research
Underrepresentation across sex, age, pregnancy, disability, migration status and socioeconomic disadvantage in clinical research is more than an ethical concern: it's a barrier to safety and reproducibility that exacerbates biases in care, argue a group of biomedical researchers and lawyers. The group has developed the EQUITRIAL framework to provide a metric for representation in clinical trials and a template for translating ethical aspirations into practice. The ‘inclusion by design’ approach looks to work within current clinical trial systems and allows representation to be audited and corrected."

Nature Briefing: Translational Research

Embedding equity in clinical research governance (no public access, but article above has link to the paper)

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