The purpose of this project is to educate state policy makers about the Human Genome Project, and to stimulate their interest and increase their knowledge about the social, ethical, and legal implications of the research. This will be accomplished through a series of four regional meetings on the subject in conjunction with existing meetings of regional and national organizations of state officials. In addition, a 'State Government Policy Maker's Guide to the Human Genome Project,' which will introduce lay officials to the Project, will be produced.

The long term objectives of this project are to develop an integrated package of public and professional education materials that would meet the pre-screening needs for education and informed consent of the public, and for the professional offering the testing. The materials would utilize innovative technology such as interactive computers, and would be developed for the average reader.

The purpose of this project is to develop models for broad-based community dialogue to examine the value and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies in applied human genetics. The project will be carried out by a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team with expertise in ethics, science policy, and education. The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee, joins with an unusually science-literate congregation to develop this project.

A full day public education forum on the HGP, to be held in 1992, is being planned as part of the Choices and Challenges forum series at Virginia Tech. This series was established in 1985 to provide public audiences with information about recent scientific and technological advances and to explore social and ethical issues related to these advances.

The objectives of this project are to determine the impact of the HGP on women, to examine whether this impact meets standards of fairness or gender justice, and to identify ways of avoiding or reducing the possibility of unfairness or gender injustice in the formulation of institution and social policies.

This project will examine the issue of affording access to the technologies that are expected to emerge from the Human Genome Project (HGP). The potential impact of these technologies on the fate of individuals, families, and ultimately, the species itself, will make the question of who is given access to them highly controversial.

The MCET and a community of academics, researchers and practitioners have designed an interdisciplinary educational program about the ethical, social and legal implications of the HGP. Using multiple telecommunications networks and manipulatives of print materials, MCET will provide a comprehensive series of programs for the general public, including students, their families, teachers, and health care providers.