Inclusion in Research

WashU Medicine Campus

We strive to produce new knowledge and innovative interventions that will increase the likelihood that outcomes will be advantageous for underrepresented and under-resourced populations and will result in increased utilization of services to ultimately reduce health disparities.

This includes:

  • Numerous faculty in our department prioritize studies that examine a variety of populations within their scientific portfolios.
  • There are numerous pilot funding opportunities across our WashU institution that help to fund health equity research pilot projects.  Examples are:
    • The Just-In-Time (JIT) Core Usage Funding Program which is designed to provide quick access to funding to use any of the JIT Cores for research advancing medical knowledge that can improve human health. Two cores that advance health equity research include the Center for Community Health Partnership and Research (CCHPR) and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2).
    • The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) invites proposals for projects related to the advancement of the CRE2 research mission and the 2020-2023 CRE2 Programmatic Themes. CRE2 will award Seed Grants of up to $15,000 per grant project. The principal aim of this program is to assist in the development of research ideas (e.g. preliminary analyses, pilot studies, conceptual schemas, archival work, etc.) that have the potential to significantly enhance scientific and cultural methodologies and to garner external research support.
  • We encourage presenters at Grand Rounds and Research Rounds to infuse our tenets of Culture & Inclusion into their lectures. This can be done in various ways:
    • Include the Land Use, acknowledgement slide within your presentation
    • Strive to include a cultural representation component within your presentation