Healthy Start

A grant program seeks to create a network of minority researchers

Debra Pérez discovered a conundrum when she arrived at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2004 to head its efforts to support research into health disparities between whites and members of minority groups in the United States.

Despite the Princeton, N.J., foundation's commitment to improving the health of all Americans, she says, applicants for its research grants were the philanthropic world's version of "the usual suspects."

"We were getting the same people

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