Looking forward to our #humanities & #genetics #EFF TOMORROW! It should be a rich discussion with Film at Southampton’s Sofia Bull, Western Illinois University’s Everett Hamner and Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science’s Jay Clayton. Register: ow.ly/2et050R0FjG

Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data).

I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London

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Join ELSIhub | CERA tomorrow at 12pm ET for ELSIconversations with Duke-Margolis, discussing #pharmacogenomic testing in psychiatric care. Join the conversation with: Deepak Voora, MD, Robert Schuck, PhD, Gary Proctor, MD and Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup.

Register: ow.ly/7zTc50QXfaX

Thanks to Branders Magazine for giving us this great platform! An honor to share the page with you Matthew Helfrich! #LINKglobal

I gave an interview to STAT on the new CMS guidelines for intimate exams on anesthetized patients, particularly Black women.

“A lot of the information that we know about gynecology and a woman’s body has come from Black women being used as guinea pigs, as experimentation”

Annalisa Merelli Keisha Ray, PhD So glad you interviewed Keisha Ray, PhD! I conducted the only national survey of about these exams. Black Americans were 3.9% more likely than white Americans to have reported receiving a non-consensual intimate examination - unacceptable racial disparity.thehastingscenter.org/news/hastings-…

Excited to present at CWRU School of Law Today with my co-author Naomi Cahn GW Law Health Law & Policy at GW

Just out in Science Magazine: Visualization tools can perpetuate distorted views. TAMU Anthropology's Dr. Sheela Athreya cautions researchers against using 'software that displays modern populations as endpoints on separate evolutionary branches' science.org/content/articl…

See you all tomorrow for this ELSIconversations ELSIhub | CERA !

Save the date! Join Washington Area Women's Foundation on Thursday, March 28 for #AskHer : “Our Power. Our Legacy.” During this conversation, Sonya Ali and fellow panelists will uncover the unique challenges facing women business owners & celebrate their impact on our communities.

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Check out the ELSIhub | CERA event with Nzinga Harrison, MD (she/hers), Sandra Yankah, PhD and Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, on pharmacogenetics testing in psychiatric care. 🧠🧬

Join us on 4/12 at 12PM ET for the next #ELSIFridayForum : Why Film and TV? ELSI Research and the Public Imagination. Panelists Sofia Bull, Everett Hamner and Jay Clayton will discuss the visual representations of #genetics in TV and film.

Register: ow.ly/2et050R0FjG

A couple more from today’s fabulous Harvard JOLT symposium. Thanks to Jessica L. Roberts Leah R. Fowler Dov Fox, and Natalie Ram, as well as the students who made this day such a success!

Recap of Panels 1 to 3 of our 2024 Symposium!

Join us for lunch and our final panel on the social implications of genetic testing with Shawneequa Callier, Anya Prince, Yaniv Heled, Liza Vertinsky & Natalie Ram.

Zoom link at bit.ly/jolt-symposium…

Thanks Shawneequa Callier and Teneille Brown!

📢 Hiring a Genetic Counseling Assistant! 📢 Join us in bringing genomic medicine to our patients. Great opportunity for aspiring genetic counselors! 🧬
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This study combines US census and map-data to demonstrate racial and socioeconomic disparities in travel distance to US cancer clinical trial sites and identifies prospective satellite sites located close to diverse populations. ja.ma/4crBAZz @hassallee Tobias Janowitz

Just out on #population descriptors! 'As journal editors, we believe that it is incumbent on us to help bridge any emerging gap, thereby ensuring both the scientific accuracy and interpretability of journal content.'ELSIhub | CERA National Academies

couldn't be a more timely journal club, led by @elsihub co-director Sandra Soo-Jin Lee !