Do you know how to increase participant diversity in health research?

Learn more on the lessons learned from the ENGAGE trial in our next CCNA Talking Brains webinar

With our guest speaker Aline Moussard, Ph.D.

September 18, 2020 at 1:00 pm EDT

Health research often fails to recruit representative samples, usually leaving the most vulnerable groups underrepresented. This causes a threat to external validity and reduces the ability to generalise results to the population. It also denies already disadvantaged groups from any health benefits of trial participation. Based on the scientific literature and on lessons learned from the ENGAGE intervention trial, this webinar will describe the individual, contextual/cultural and research-related barriers for participation of underrepresented populations in health research. It will then present facilitators for recruitment and retention, both in terms of recruitment strategies and adaptation of study design. Finally, the webinar will discuss policy and large-scale measures that may be needed to better address this issue. Overall, this webinar will help researchers consider ways to improve inclusion and increase diversity in their study samples.

Aline Moussard, Ph.D. is a neuropsychologist specialized in applied research related to the use of music as a tool for cognitive stimulation in healthy and clinical populations. She is also a project manager at the Research Center of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, and is currently coordinating a multisite research project on dementia prevention that uses cognitive training and stimulating leisure activities (including music practice) to build and strengthen cognitive reserve in healthy older adults.

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