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AMBER WATTERS, M.D.
When Amber Watters was a child, she thought that a scientific researcher could
only look like a scholarly white man, the kind she had seen on television or in
movies. It did not occur to Watters that a researcher could be like her: female, black,
and from Jonesboro, Ga.
All of that changed when Watters enrolled in a program established by Morehouse
School of Medicine that recruits high school students to serve as apprentices in
biomedical research laboratories.
Students are mentored by MSM research faculty and learn the content, process,
and methodology of inquiry science.
“I never would have known I could do this if it weren’t for this program,” she says.
“It made me want to work with underserved populations, and to serve communities
like the one I came from.”
She learned how to be a researcher, and in the process, a difficult truth: People of
color are frequently left out of data collection and analysis.
