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<p>The Government is strongly committed to supporting research into dementia. Governmental
responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department of
Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health
and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology,
with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation.</p><p>The NIHR is committed
to equality, diversity, and inclusion. When populations are excluded from health and
care research it leads to biases, bad science, and skewed results. The NIHR understands
that more diverse and inclusive health and care research can prove whether medicines
and treatments will benefit people from all backgrounds, and for that reason it supports
Join Dementia Research to increase the number and diversity of people participating
in dementia research. Based on the latest published data, the diversity of research
participants in NIHR-funded Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in all areas of disease
in 2022, mirrored the 2011 census data on ethnicity and sex across England and Wales.
Data shows that NIHR RCT research participants were 86% white, 4% black, 5% Asian,
and 5% of other minority ethnic groups. Male and female participation was equal to
the population, at 49% and 51%, respectively. The NIHR strives to develop researchers
from multiple disciplines, specialisms, geographies and backgrounds, and works to
address barriers to career progression arising from characteristics such as sex, race
or disability. Diverse people and communities shape NIHR funded research.</p>
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