{"id":133542,"date":"2025-02-11T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&p=133542"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:11:20","slug":"adjoa-her-research-is-focused-on-improving-outreach-to-the-black-community-and-black-veterans-in-particular","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2025\/adjoa-her-research-is-focused-on-improving-outreach-to-the-black-community-and-black-veterans-in-particular\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjoa: Her research is focused on improving outreach to the Black community, and Black veterans in particular"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Adjoa Fosuhema-Kordie is from the Bronx and has seen the disparities that exist in healthcare among underserved populations. She said she came to BU because of the school\u2019s commitment to expanding healthcare access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many health disparities and so many issues with people who look like me, and the reason I want to become a doctor is to address these health disparities,\u201d said Fosuhema-Kordie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research is focused on improving outreach to the Black community, and Black veterans in particular, to encourage them to have annual computed tomography (CT) scans looking for lung
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\u201cLung cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths and there are known disparities between Blacks and white people with a higher incidence and mortality for Black people,\u201d Fosuhema-Kordie said. Even though it\u2019s known that annual screening with CT scans can lower those rates, Blacks are tested at about half the rate of the white population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to have health fairs, but they don\u2019t work if the people don\u2019t show up,\u201d she said. Fosuhema-Kordie worked with the Veterans Administration\u2019s Center for Health Optimization & Implementation Research on improving that communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think sometimes research seems so far away from the people its actually supposed to help,\u201d she said. \u201cI think this is an opportunity to bridge that gap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fosuhema-Kordie sees herself continuing working with underserved populations like Black women and children of immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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