Campaign aims to build diverse medical database that includes ‘All of Us’
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us mobile exhibit set up Wednesday, June 15, outside the Orpheum Theatre. The exhibit is traveling across the U.S. to engage communities that have been historically underrepresented in medical research. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The research mobile exhibit, led by the National Institutes of Health, stops in Memphis this week.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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