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This workshop is being sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate interest, improve methodological approaches, and encourage submission of high-quality research grant applications that examine the role of racial/ethnic discrimination in the receipt of health care and health disparities. The specific objectives of the technical workshop are:
- To examine the current state of and identify gaps in the research related to the role that racial/ethnic discrimination plays in the receipt of health care in the U.S.
- To generate a research agenda that identifies research questions that are high priority, feasible, and relevant to research on the role of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery.
- To improve the technical and grant-writing skills of applicants and thus increase the likelihood of funding success.
- To encourage the development of an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in and conducting research on this topic.
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