racism

Aishwarya Arjunan of Myriad’s Women’s Health and Carrie Haverty of the biotech start-up Miroculus join Laura to discuss dialogues that have cropped up recently on Twitter and in other places against the backdrop of a moment of national reckoning on how racism past and present shapes our society.

Our own accounting includes a look at how exclusion and mistrust have made genetic medicine less effective for some populations than others, how practice can mitigate or perpetuate those inequities, and how to make our field more diverse and welcoming for under-represented groups.