Faith-Based Community Conversation on the Value of Genetic Research

View a community conversation and learn about a new health research program engaging communities historically left out of medical research or mistreated in the past. The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is working to build trust and partnerships. Panelists outlined the value of joining All of Us and the information participants can gain about their health. They talked about how All of Us researchers are advancing discoveries on a wide range of diseases thanks to health information shared by participants. Local faith leaders lead the conversation.

Panelists included:

• Karriem Watson, D.H.Sc. M.S., M.P.H., All of Us chief engagement officer.
• Tshaka Cunningham, Ph.D., executive director, Faith-based Genetic Research Institute and Chief Scientific Officer, Polaris Genomics; 
• Debra Murray, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.
• Pavan Zaveri, M.D., M.Ed., Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center; All of Us Research team member, Jain Society of Metropolitan Washington.
• Clayton C. Yates, Ph.D., John R. Lewis professor of Pathology, Director for Translational Health Disparities and Global Health Equity Research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. 

The event was moderated by Rickey Harvey, D.Min., M.Div., Assistant Pastor at St. John Baptist Church.