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Advancing Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Canada and the USA

June 6, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Free

Join us for a stimulating panel about how two major initiatives in the USA and Canada are advancing Indigenous genomic data sovereignty and data governance practices: the Native BioData Consortium and the Silent Genomes Project. Presentations by each panelist will be followed by a Q&A.
Panelists:
Krystal Tsosie, PhD MPH MA, Native BioData Consortium
Nadine Caron, MD MPH FRCSC, Silent Genomes Project
Wyeth Wasserman, PhD, Silent Genomes Project

This event is part of Dr. Krystal Tsosie’s week as a Visiting Scholar at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, an interdisciplinary research unit within the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.