Understanding Disparities in Access to Genomic Medicine: A Workshop

When:	June 27, 2018 (8:30 AM Eastern)
Where:	Keck Center (100) • 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, DC 20001

Topics	Biomedical and Health Research, Public Health
Activity:	Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health
Board:	Board on Health Sciences Policy

Genomic medicine has the potential to improve the quality of health care by allowing practitioners to individually tailor prevention and treatment strategies to each of their patients. Recent research breakthroughs, technological advances, and the decreasing cost of DNA sequencing have led to wider adoption of genomic medicine. However, it is not clear if genetic/genomic services will reach all segments of the population both now and in the near future, and there remains a significant gap in knowledge regarding potential health care disparities that pertain to genomic medicine and precision health approaches.