As a part of their work on the U.S. Human Genome Project, NHGRI has produced a multimedia educational kit, The Human Genome Project: Exploring our Molecular Selves. The kit (which could only be ordered online) is intended to reach a wide variety of audiences including high school biology teachers and students as well as other educators, scientists, healthcare professionals, and college students.
This project will advance the level of genetic literacy in science teachers through the development and dissemination of a curriculum unit for teaching ELSI/genetics. Professional development workshops for biology teachers will provide them with a problem-based learning unit and associated classroom resources that focus on critical thinking skills pertaining to ELSI and the Human Genome Project. Hands-on activities related to modem genetic technology and the Human Genome Project will be incorporated in this curriculum unit.
SoundVision Productions, creator of the highly acclaimed, nationally distributed public radio documentary series The DNA Files (1998, 2001), seeks funding for production, marketing, distribution and evaluation of The DNA Files 3, a new series of five highly produced 60-minute radio documentaries, five, five-minute features, a multimedia website and promotional materials that will inform a diverse public about the important and complex implications of advances in genomics and systems biology.
This community education intervention is a collaborative initiative between Pacific University, the Pacific Institute for Ethics and Social Policy, and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. it is a pilot program with significant potential for becoming a national model for collaboration between religious communities, genetic scientists, and educational institutions.
The Human Genome Hispanic Outreach Initiative will be an informal educational outreach project introducing Hispanics adults (25-49 years old) to basic science concepts, technologies, and societal issues related to human genome research. All programs and materials will be developed in the Spanish-language. The project combines the power of Spanish language mass media, in the form of daily, nationally broadcast, radio capsules, weekly longer-format radio segments, and editorial features in newspapers, with an 800 toll free information and referral Helpline and a resource website.
This 3-Year Project (Amended Application) seeks support for an innovative inter-regional public education model, in New York and Arizona, aimed at developing and using public libraries as centers for information, education and discussion of genomics and the Human Genome Project, with outreach emphasis on communities of color, Native Americans, and residents of isolated or low-income communities, to include ethical, legal and social issues and gene environment interactions.
Genomic information offers the opportunity for "personalized prevention" in both clinical practice and public health settings. To date, such efforts have focused primarily on chronic diseases and their behavioral risk factors. We propose an exploratory CEER to study the ethical, legal, social and policy (ELSP) issues arising in the novel and timely context of infectious disease.
The North Coast Conference on Precision Medicine is a national annual mid-sized conference series held in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference series aims to serve as a venue for the continuing education and exchange of scientific ideas related to the rapidly evolving and highly interdisciplinary landscape that is precision medicine research. The topics for each conference coincide with the national conversation and research agenda set by national research programs focused on precision medicine.
A large and highly heterogeneous group of individuals conducts genetic and genomic research outside of traditional corporate and academic settings. They can be an important source of innovation, but their activities largely take place beyond the purview of existing regulatory systems for promoting safe and ethical practices. Historically the gene-targeting technology available for non-traditional biology (NTB) experiments has been limited, and therefore they have attracted little regulatory attention.