Scientific Research & (Mis) trust »
Today, medical/scientific mistrust represents a large barrier to the progress of cancer research and health equity.
Trust is pivotal to meaningful research, yet research and medical institutions have struggled to address the mistrust that they have created among communities of color and other marginalized people.
Both research institutions and researchers themselves can work to promote trust on small and large scales every day.
Understanding the past for its role in mistrust today is incredibly important. Attention must also be paid, however, to discriminatory hospital and research practices, policies, and systems that continue to create and maintain mistrust today.
The resources on this page look backwards and forwards in time to identify sources of mistrust and to help develop strategies to build trust.