Two Community-Based Strategies to Recruit Black Women in Research

To adequately address health disparities, underserved populations must be recruited for biomedical research. Particularly, Black women have been insufficiently included in biomedical research for reasons beyond those of participant preference. Researchers can and should be taking responsibility to ensure rigorous methods are employed to appropriately recruit Black women and enable meaningful implications of their results. The objective of this paper is to identify and describe innovative community-based strategies for successful recruitment of Black women in research. Three studies are referenced to exemplify recruitment methods and demonstrate promising recruitment results in sample size and screening-to-enrollment ratio.

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To address health disparities, it is crucial to recruit underserved populations for biomedical research. Black women have been underrepresented in research, and innovative community-based strategies are needed to improve recruitment numbers and ratios. Researchers must take responsibility for employing rigorous methods to recruit Black women and ensure meaningful implications of their results.