The future of research: Challenges and solutions for participant diversity

National Institute for Health and Care Research

Episode 2 of the NIHR podcast series discussing the big research challenges facing healthcare, hosted by Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford . Every week, UK clinicians with experience of research discuss the tough questions about research.
In this episode, Sanjay is joined by research optometrist Laura Taylor, Sofia Cerdeira MD PhD, clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford, and Dr. Tanya Baron, an emergency medicine consultant and former GP, to discuss why it matters that research participants are diverse, the challenges to achieving this, and ways these might be overcome.
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.