Join us for a stimulating panel about how two major initiatives in the USA and Canada are advancing Indigenous genomic data sovereignty and data governance practices: the Native BioData Consortium and the Silent Genomes Project.

Presentations by each panelist will be followed by a Q&A.

Krystal Tsosie, PhD MPH MA, Native BioData Consortium

Nadine Caron, MD MPH FRCSC, Silent Genomes Project

Wyeth Wasserman, PhD, Silent Genomes Project

This event is part of Dr. Krystal Tsosie's week as a Visiting Scholar at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, an interdisciplinary research unit within the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. The second public event of her visit will be on June 9, 4-5:30PM PDT with Neuroethics Canada, and the details and registration can be found here: Brain wellness, genomic justice, and Indigenous communities: Supporting wellness and self-determination

Interested to learn more ahead of the event?

• Nadine Caron and Krystal Tsosie recently appeared together on the podcast CBC Ideas: Body Language | Indigenous BioData
• Watch this mini documentary about the Silent Genomes Project: Voicing the Silent Genomes by Spotlight Productions
• Website for the Native BioData Consoritum

We acknowledge the the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).