Dr. Erika Marek, senior lecturer at the Department of Operational Medicine, University of Pecs, as a part of her ’János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ and ‘ÚNKP-19-4 Bolyai + New National Excellence Program’ research activities, has conducted interview study among Hungarian healthcare workers together with dr. Reka Kalmar, previous undergraduate medical student (since 2019 MD). The purpose of their study was to explore how health providers’ implicit racial bias may impact Roma patients’ health according to healthcare workers’ views.

Please, find below a short summary of their study:

 This research was supported by János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The support period of this stipend is 2017/09/01-2020/08/31. „Supported by the ÚNKP-19-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology” and University of Pecs, Medical School, PTE ÁOK-KA [No.2017-