GenoCommunity Think Tank: First National Meeting

Monday September 20th & Tuesday September 21st, 2010
St. Louis, Mo.

(September 20th Full Day; September 21st Half-Day)

The National Community Committee of the Prevention Research Centers and the Center for Public Health and Community Genomics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health are hosting a two-day GenoCommunity Think Tank: First National Meeting that will promote community engagement, education, and policy development in genomics and health through the following activities:

• sharing best practices and promising practices for achieving community engagement;
• sharing information about available funding;
• developing strategies for promoting community-based participatory genomics research in prevention research centers;
• developing strategies for promoting genomic applications in community-local public health department practice;
• sharing information on policy issues and how to engage community members in policy development; and
• launching a Genomics Special Interest Group within the National Community Committee.

Travel and lodging expenses will be paid for two representatives from community-based/grass roots organizations and two other representatives from academe and/or local public health departments from up to twenty-five Prevention Research Centers.
For information, please contact Sally Meyer at 734/615-3412 or salmeyer@umich.edu.

Funding for this project was made possible by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through McKing Consulting Corporation, contract 200-2009-F-32675. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.