In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly decided that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People be observed on August 9 every year.
2019: International Year of Indigenous Languages
There are between 6,000-7,000 oral languages spoken worldwide. According to United Nations, approximately 600 of them have disappeared in the last century.
Precision Medicine Rejects “One-Size-Fits-All” Medicine
Clinical trials and health research are invaluable tools to advance individual and public health around the world, but the communities represented by the Diverse Elders Coalition – including American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Hispanics and Latinos, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Transgender (LGBT) people – are often underrepresented in these initiatives.
