Day 1 theme: Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Implications for Disease Risk.
Speakers: Dorothy E. Roberts, JD, (UPenn), “Ending the Legacy of Race and Racism in Genomics Research”; Vence L. Bonham, Jr., JD, (NHGRI, NIH), “Population Descriptors in Genomics Research: Translation to Clinical Care”; Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, (Columbia University) “The Ethics of Inclusion: Conceptions of Diversity in Genomics”; Iain Mathieson, PhD, (UPenn), “What is ancestry?”; John Novembre, PhD, (UChicago),“Patterns and implications of geographic structure in human genetic variation”; Li-San Wang, PhD, (UPenn), “Asian Cohort for Alzheimer's Disease (ACAD)”

Speakers: Goncalo Abecasis, PhD (Regeneron Genetics Center | University of Michigan) - “Sequencing 100,000s of Humans – Lessons, Challenges, Hopes”; Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) - “Polygenic risk scores – for some or for all?”; Neil Hanchard, MD, PhD (NHGRI) - “’Out of Africa’ Genomics”; Catherine Tcheandjieu, PhD (Stanford University) - “The Benefit of Diverse Populations for Genetic Discovery in Coronary Artery Disease.”; and Gary H. Gibbons, MD (NHLBI) - Nurturing Diversity in Precision Medicine for Public Health Impact.”