Black and African Americans’ Connections to Parkinson’s Disease

Key Takeaways

After previous successful recruitment partnerships with BBK Worldwide, the Michael J. Fox Foundation looked to BBK to assist in developing the recruitment materials for their Black and African Americans’ Connections to Parkinson’s Disease (BLAAC-PD) initiative.

This multicenter observational study’s primary objective is to create a collaborative network across various centers to consolidate resources and ensure that sufficient numbers of patients from underrepresented populations, with a main focus on the Black American ancestry population, were recruited for genetic studies in PD and atypical parkinsonism-related syndromes.