Genetic advances hold extreme promise, but also the potential to further increase health disparities. Join a forum of stakeholders to learn, identify, and discuss many of the challenges and possible solutions for addressing health disparities in genomic medicine. The research, clinical, and policy approaches to genomics and health disparities are extremely varied, as are the stakeholders invested in and impacted by them. What is unique and powerful about this conference is addressing these many facets and their relationships to one another, and bringing corresponding stakeholders together to facilitate collaboration. Attendees include researchers, public health professionals, clinicians, genetic counselors, students, attorneys, policy makers, and the public at large, among many others. The goals of the two-day conference are to:
(1) Demonstrate the impact of genomic medicine on disparities in healthcare;
(2) Elucidate the impact of current policy and policy changes that may remedy or exacerbate health disparities related to genomic medicine; and
(3) Create a forum for stakeholders to learn from one another’s expertise and research, and to facilitate collaboration
Preliminary session topics include impact of current and future policy decisions on health disparities, epigenetics, newborn genomic screening, impact of new technologies (i.e. Kathleen Sebelius, the outgoing United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, has agreed to participate as a keynote speaker. This is in keeping with the wonderful keynote speakers we have had in years past, such as Donna Shalala, Eric Green, Ph.D., Richard Carmona, M.D., and Gary Gibbons, M.D. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this event, please email your contact information to HIHGGAPCONF@med.miami.edu.
