How Can Law Support Genomics and Precision Medicine to Advance the Health of Underserved Populations?
FREE CONFERENCE AND WEBCAST
Thursday, November 29, 2018
8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
The integration of genomic and precision medicine into health care offers enormous opportunities to improve human health, but there is significant risk that these emerging therapies will worsen inequities instead of alleviating them. The insights of genomic medicine are currently derived from data that fails to include enough members of underserved populations; as a consequence, genomic variant interpretation may, in some cases, be incorrect for members of racial and ethnic minorities in the US. Recruitment and retention of diverse and representative populations of research participants remain a challenge.
The goal of this conference is to investigate what role law and policy are playing in creating these inequities, and what legal and regulatory changes can be made to ensure that genomic and precision medicine don’t replicate or worsen existing health disparities. By assembling leading thinkers, clinicians, scientists, and activists at the intersection of law, policy, genomics, and disparities analysis, this event will be the first to focus on the role of law and policy in advancing genomics and precision medicine to promote health equity.
