Contact: Christine Byrd
cbyrd@uci.edu
949-824-9055
University of California - Irvine

Michael Montoya, UC Irvine

Caption: Research by UC Irvine anthropologist Michael Montoya calls into question how race-specific information is being gathered and interpreted by the medical community as well as how it is presented to the public through media and pharmaceutical marketing.

Credit: Christine Byrd

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