When we have equal access to care, we can make empowered choices. We can plan our futures, take care of our families, and get the support we need to achieve what we want. For too long, healthcare services have been carried out with little say from the people it serves, without consideration to our practical, emotional or cultural needs.
Genetic health tests can be expensive, time consuming and difficult to access. As a result most of us miss out on having valuable information to help us make the best decisions for ourselves and our families' future.
We started Eugene to create a kinder, gentler and more affordable approach to health — to build the kind of healthcare service that we’d want for ourselves and our loved ones.
Make genetics accessible to everyone.
We believe that an affordable, emotionally supportive, and culturally sensitive environment is super important in making healthcare and genetic services accessible to everyone.
That means making sure people have access to counsellors, doctors, specialists and more support networks that can empower them with the knowledge and agency to make choices that feel right for them.
Be kind to people.
Health and genetics can be complex, scary and is deeply personal. After all, genetics is all about what you inherit from the family that came before you, and what you pass on to the family that comes after.
We believe that good care embraces every aspect of a person’s experience with compassion, empathy and kindness. It provides honest, thoughtful and accurate advice, and it’s a conversation that hasn’t left emotions out of it.
Have the integrity to make ethical choices.
There are countless companies out there that use genetics to report on all kinds of things from health conditions to nutrition and sporting ability. It can get pretty hard to differentiate between fact and fiction.
We embrace the science and ethics behind genetics testing to only offer you products that we would use ourselves, and recommend to loved ones. These are products that can provide people with relevant information so they can make important health choices.
Fight for equality in healthcare.
Systemic biases in the medical and technological industry have long shaped the kind of treatments, cures and recommendations we get at the doctor’s office. These biases continue to result in worse health outcomes for women, people of colour and most other minorities.
One of the many ways we try to help address these inequalities in health outcomes is to empower all of us, as individuals and communities to make more informed choices about our own health and the role we can play in advancing representation in healthcare research.
