• NIH Sep 18, 2018 | R25

    Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers

    Principal Investigator(s): MATHEWS, DEBRA JH;

    Institution: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

    FOA Number: PAR-16-345

    Abstract

    The proposed R25 Research Education Program is devoted to building a 15-month research mentorship program at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (BI) for students from diverse, underrepresented groups and backgrounds, to help diversify the pool of ELSI researchers and thus enrich scholarship in genomics and society studies. Trainees will learn research skills, build networks, and gain exposure to the range of possible training and career options in ELSI research. Student trainees will contribute to genomics and society research that 1) examines the ethical, legal, social, historical and policy issues confronting the application of genomics to the prevention, outbreak control, and treatment of infectious diseases, which pose an enormous health burden in the U.S. and globally; and 2) studies the impact of genetic testing for hereditary disease on at-risk families, to help understand and improve how genetic risk information is communicated with families and within them.

    FUNDING AGENCY:

    Funder:
    NIH

    Institute:
    NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE

    Funding Type:
    R25

    Project Number:
    R25HG010026

    Start Date:
    Sep 18, 2018

    End Date:
    Jun 30, 2023

    PROJECT TERMS:

    Area, Baltimore, Bioethics, career, cohort, Communicable Diseases, Communities, County, Development, Disease Outbreaks, Education Projects, education research, ethical legal social implication, Event, experience, Exposure to, Faculty, faculty research, Family, Funding, Future, Genetic Risk, genetic testing, Genomics, Goals, Health, Hereditary Disease, Home, Housing, improved, Individual, infectious disease treatment, Infrastructure, Institutes, Institution, interest, Lead, Learning, Maryland, Mentors, Mentorship, Methods, outreach, Policies, Population, Prevention, programs, Recording of previous events, recruit, Research, Research Personnel, Risk, Scholarship, Science, skill acquisition, skills, Societies, Structure, Student recruitment, Students, summer internship, summer program, Time, Training, Travel, undergraduate research experience, undergraduate student, Underrepresented Populations, Universities

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