This project is designed to improve our understanding of when to best communicate parental genetic risk information to minor children by assessing the minor?s readiness to receive such information from the perspective of the parent and the minor child themselves. We will interview parent-child pairs who have already communicated about parental genetic risk information to richly characterize experiences with, perspectives on, and implications of the communication event(s).

PROJECT NARRATIVE A number of US employers are offering their employees confidential workplace genomic testing (wGT), a service that could inform employees of their genetic risk for certain treatable diseases but may also raise concerns about genetic privacy and workplace discrimination.

PROJECT NARRATIVE Consumer protections are of rising importance to the sustainability of personal genomics and mobile health industries and realization of precision health, yet the extent of consumer protections available from the Federal Trade Commission (the primary federal agency in the United States responsible for ensuring online privacy and data security beyond medical settings, for the prevention of unfair and deceptive trade practices of companies that might not be governed by HIPAA, and for promoting innovation) are poorly characterized and have received surprisingly little ELSI re

Puerto Ricans are especially at risk of experiencing distributive injustice, or the structural exclusion from participating in genetic research that could potentially benefit them.