STAT: To Tackle Race in Clinical Guidelines, Researchers Seek Alternatives to Federal Dollars

June 2025

STAT journalist Katie Palmer reports on $1 million in grant funding provided by the Encoding Equity Alliance Specialty Societies Grant awards to medical specialty societies that are thoughtfully reconsidering the role of race in clinical guidance. She explains how these new projects, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation via the Encoding Equity Alliance, will widen the impact of ongoing efforts to re-evaluate both algorithms and clinical guidelines that treat race as a biological factor, when race itself is a social idea and never the direct cause of disease. The changes underway in fields from pediatrics to gastroenterology to addiction medicine will move us towards better care for all patients.