Emma highlights common barriers, such as language or accessible childcare, in research that can affect diversity of patient partners
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I mean a big barrier for us specifically because we work with immigrant population is language barrier. Unfortunately we don’t have anyone on our team who speaks the languages of some of the communities that we want to work with. And often that comes down to, you know, you end up maybe wanting to pay for interpreters or something like that. But again it’s just its more money, it’s more funding it’s a little bit of an additional challenge, which is why if you can do a model where you have somebody on the research team who’s from that community and speaks whatever language, that can be really helpful.
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