Faith-Based Community Conversation on the Value of Genetic Research
10431 Twin Rivers Road
Columbia, Maryland
Join a community conversation and learn about a new health research program engaging communities historically left out of medical research or mistreated in the past. The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is working to build trust and partnerships. Panelists will outline the value of joining All of Us and the information participants can gain about their health. They'll talk about how All of Us researchers are advancing discoveries on a wide range of diseases thanks to health information shared by participants. Local faith leaders will lead the conversation.
Panelists include:
- Karriem Watson, D.H.Sc. M.S., M.P.H., All of Us chief engagement officer.
- Tshaka Cunningham, Ph.D., executive director, Faith-based Genetic Research Institute and Chief Scientific Officer, Polaris Genomics;
- Debra Murray, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine.
- Pavan Zaveri, M.D., M.Ed., Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center; All of Us Research team member, Jain Society of Metropolitan Washington.
- Clayton C. Yates, Ph.D., John R. Lewis professor of Pathology, Director for Translational Health Disparities and Global Health Equity Research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
The event will be moderated by Rickey Harvey, D.Min., M.Div., Assistant Pastor at St. John Baptist Church.
(Left to Right) Senior Pastor Frank Lance, D.Min, M.Div, Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church; Veronica Robinson, Lacks family descendent, senior advisor, HELA100, the Henrietta Lacks Initiative; Tshaka Cunningham, Ph.D., executive director, Faith-based Genetic Research Institute, chief scientific officer, Polaris Genomics; Stacy Lloyd, Ph.D., M.P.H., Benjamin-Carver scholar & assistant professor, Center for Biomedical Research, Tuskegee University; Altovise T. Ewing, Ph.D., LCGC, genomic health equity scientist, InGENEuity, LLC; Karriem Watson, D.H.Sc., M.S., M.P.H., chief engagement officer, Division of Engagement and Outreach, All of Us Research Program.