DiverseHealth

Inspiration

Black and Hispanic people are severely underrepresented in clinical research trials as exhibited by an analysis of cancer trials from 2008-2018. This makes it more difficult to identify symptoms and adverse reactions in these populations. Our goal with this application is to provide a path for widespread awareness of this issue and enable diverse population groups to enroll in clinical studies.

What it does

Provides information on diversity levels and demographics for studies for a population without medical literacy, and provides resources of ongoing studies, as well as current clinical trials available for enrollment

How we built it

We used glide app to build and demo the multiple features included in our app. Because we want to bridge the gap between medical officials who are highly educated, but often skew older and lack technological skills, and the average US resident, who has less education but is more technologically savvy. The app uses an intuitive design with easy to understand menus for medical professionals with tech struggles, and simple menus and descriptions to give context for clinical research studies.

Challenges we ran into

The challenge we ran into was narrowing our application's focus and quickly transitioning our app. We wanted to start the app with a focus on genetic research, but that style of complex personal care is difficult to integrate technologically without diverse datasets and requires vast amounts of funding. However, by shifting our focus to broad clinical trials, we were able to combat the lack of diversity in many tech settings and address an issue with a simple technological response.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-Incorporating simple menus -A sign in and pin feature for two-factor authentication to prevent security risks -Efficient and simplified resources to break down medical information

What we learned

-We learned about the new prevalence of virtual clinical trials both to bring clinical research to under-served communities, and to administer trials in the new age of Covid-19 -We learned how to use GlideApp to create simple mockups and incorporate authentication into applications

What's next for DiverseHealth

-Making enrolling in clinical studies easier from the root menu. -Providing recruitment resources to drug companies such as Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi to create diverse data sets which follow FDA guidelines, and help them better research the populations most affected by certain conditions such as black women and breast cancer.

Built With

• glideapp