Description
ASHG invites our community to participate in a 90-minute virtual forum featuring a brief presentation of the Facing Our History – Building an Equitable Future initiative, a panel discussion, and a safe space for questions and dialogue. Please join us on September 14, 2022, from 2 pm to 3:30 pm ET.
This session will be moderated by Neil Hanchard, MBBS, D.Phil, (Chair, ASHG DEI Task Force and Facilitator of the initiative’s Expert Panel on Historic Injustices and Scientific Racism). The session is designed to provide background on the initiative and its progress as well as engage our community in this important discussion. The dialogue portion of the session will not be recorded to maintain the freedom for participants to speak openly and safely.
The following Expert Panel members are participating in the forum:
- Katrina Claw, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, Medicine-Bioinformatics
- Tshaka Cunningham, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Polaris Genomics Inc.
- Charmaine Royal, PhD, Duke University, Robert O. Keohane Professor of African & African American Studies, Biology, Global Health, and Family Medicine & Community Health
- Digna Velez Edwards, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Division Director Quantitative Sciences, Director, Women’s Health Research
