Members of the ELSI Scholar Directory are scholars and trainees with an interest in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics. You may contact members to organize collaborative projects or working groups, share speaking opportunities, solicit expert commentary, obtain advice on policy or legislation, network, and arrange mentor/mentee relationships.
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Sara L. Ackerman, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Socio-cultural meanings of genomics
- Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Biomedicine
- ELSI Genomics
- community based participatory research
- implementation science

Jessica W Blanchard, PhD
Researcher
Institution: Center for the Ethics of Indigenous Genomic Research, University of Oklahoma
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI
- Indigenous Communities
- Community Engagement
- Anthropology

Marianna J. Bledsoe, M.A.
Independent Consultant; Deputy Editor
Institution: Biopreservation and Biobanking
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Biobanking
- Research Ethics
- Science Policy
- Secondary research use of data and biospecimens
- genomic data sharing

Jada L. Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Community Engagement
- Racial Health Disparities

Julia EH Brown, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioethics and Innovative Technologies
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Contact: [email protected]edu
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Psychiatry
- Medical Anthropology
- genomic data sharing
- Psychosocial Influences
- health disparities
Julie Cakici, BA, BSN, Pre-Doctoral Candidate in Public Health
Graduate Student Researcher
Institution: University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Consent for Genomic Testing
- Infant, Newborn
- Pediatric bioethics
- ELSI Genomics
- Ethical and organizational issues in biobanking

Katharine P. Callahan, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethical Legal and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics
Institution: CHOP, University of Pennsylvania
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Neonatology
- Bioethics
- ELSI Genomics

Shawneequa Callier, JD, MA
Associate Professor
Institution: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- race and genetics
- Ethics of precision medicine
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI)

Betty Cohn, MBE
Research Assistant
Institution: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- direct-to-consumer genetic testing
- Public Health
- Bioethics

Kaitlynn P. Craig, MA
Research Assistant
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- human-chimera research