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
