Advocacy
Navigating Mental Health in the COVID-19 Era
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ASHG Appreciates its Supportive Volunteers for National Volunteer Appreciation Week
It’s National Volunteer Appreciation Week! It’s the perfect time to celebrate people doing extraordinary things through service. Established in 1974, National Volunteer Appreciation Week focuses on the power of volunteerism as an integral aspect of community leadership and membership. At a challenging time for public health and the genetics and genomics community, it is so... Read More
ASHG Affirms Views Supporting Reproductive Choice, Fetal Tissue Research
In the American Journal of Human Genetics this week, ASHG affirms its support for a woman’s right to make her own reproductive decisions, particularly upon learning that her fetus has a genetic or congenital disorder. The Society also articulates its support for laws that enable human fetal tissue research to proceed with appropriate oversight, within... Read More
Partnering with the Community to Support Science
ASHG partners with many professional societies and organizations on a multitude of issues important to the biomedical research community. Related Diversity and Inclusion Efforts AAAS community letter: supporting Congressional resolutions to denounce anti-Asian discrimination as related to COVID-19 (April 2020) American Institute of Physics community letter: opposing the elimination of federal training programs related to... Read More