Beyond correlating race with health outcomes, the standard for scientists should be to pinpoint what drives health disparities — income, education, neighborhood environmental exposure — comments Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, a leader in the drive to remove race as a variable in calculating kidney function.
To understand health and disease today, we need new thinking and novel science —the kind we create when multiple disciplines work together from the ground up. That is why this department has put forward a bold vision in population-health science: a single academic home for biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics.
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