RESEARCH

Community Engagement

To solicit community perspectives on the role and relevance of genomics in clinical care and society
To facilitate socially and ethically responsible research and research communication through community-engaged efforts
To inform clinical care services and research design through the incorporation of community perspectives and feedback

Adversarial Collaboration

To develop an applied ethics research framework that addresses the limitations of embedded ethics, research ethics consultations, and consensus conference approaches
To generate productive dialogue on the risks, benefits, and ethical responsibilities of genetics/genomics
To develop best practices and ethical guidelines in partnership with individuals of different disciplines and research paradigms
To facilitate socially and ethically responsible research and research communication

Genetics, Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry

To ensure race is not posited as a biological category responsible for social inequality
To prevent the conflation of race and ancestry
To encourage researchers to acknowledge and confront the eugenic history underpinning genomics and instill proactive measure to prevent the misuse and misapplication of genetics

Genetics and Education

To assess the social and ethical implications of the advent of genomics in education
To develop and evaluate resources and materials that facilitate the responsible interpretation and application of genomic prediction technologies. For example, I co-constructed a repository of FAQs associated with GWAS in social/behavioral genomics that was featured in Nature Genetics
To foster educational stakeholders’ and public communities’ genomic literacy to prevent genetic essentialism and biological determinism

Methodological Limitations of Genomic Prediction

To stymy overly optimistic interpretations of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and polygenic scores (PGS)
To evaluate the impacts of communication on the methodological limitations of genomic prediction technologies on individuals’ understandings of genomics