Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience

Neuroscience research is affected by a substantial racial bias, but there are major challenges involved in minimizing this bias. Here we discuss these challenges and call for a global discussion that develops answers to these challenges and defines best practices for how researchers can better represent human diversity and work against medical racism. This global discussion should involve researchers from medicine, life sciences, social sciences, and humanities, as well as people with lived experience and health equity activists, to improve racial and ethnic equity in neuroscience research and beyond.

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Neuroscience research is influenced by significant racial bias and addressing this bias presents major challenges. The authors propose a global discussion involving researchers from various disciplines and individuals with lived experience to develop solutions and best practices for promoting racial and ethnic equity in neuroscience research and beyond.