In 1989, the Physician’s Health Study on the benefits of aspirin for heart disease included 22,000 men and no women—and while we have made great strides toward more representative research in the decades since, women still aren’t included in biomedical research at a proportionate rate.
Author: Linda Goler-Blount
Linda Goler Blount, MPH, is president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, a member of the American Public Health Association and the National Association of Health Services Executives and a member of the boards of Community Health Charities and the University of Michigan School of Public Health Summer Enrichment Program.