October 1, 2004

Report Calls on Colleges to Reverse Lack of Racial Diversity in the Health Professions

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

A lack of racial diversity in the health-care professions directly threatens the health of at least one-third of the U.S. population and indirectly hurts millions more people, according to a report released last week. Colleges and universities can play a key role in reversing the situation, it says.

The report was prepared by a commission led by a former U.S. secretary of health and human services, Louis W. Sullivan, who is also a president emeritus of the Morehouse School of

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