CAREER: Equitable medical decision-making — NSF Award to University of California-Berkeley (CA, $441,404)
Enormous health inequality persists in the United States. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In many areas of the country, people with a higher income live up to decade longer than those in the lowest income levels. Additionally, the pandemic itself has hit low income and under-served populations especially hard. Bia
| Award title | CAREER: Equitable medical decision-making |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2516270 |
| Awardee | University of California-Berkeley |
| City | BERKELEY |
| State | CA |
| Amount obligated | $441,404 |
| Principal investigator | Emma Pierson |
| Program | Info Integration & Informatics |
| Start date | 01/01/2025 |
| Abstract | Enormous health inequality persists in the United States. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In many areas of the country, people with a higher income live up to decade longer than those in the lowest income levels. Additionally, the pandemic itself has hit low income and under-served populations especially hard. Biased medical decision-making contributes to this health inequality. For example, previous work has shown that one of widely used health risk prediction algorithms assesses African-A |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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