Scott Roberts and colleagues receive NIH Grant to Develop Genomics ELSI Training Program

The University of Michigan School of Public Health has received federal funding to launch an integrated, interdisciplinary fellowship program that will provide training in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomic science.

Led by Scott Roberts, professor of health behavior and health education at Michigan Public Health, the ELSI Research Training Program is funded by a T32 training grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute and will launch in fall 2018. Raymond De Vries, Wendy Uhlmann, Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Jodyn Platt, Kayte Spector-Bagdady are among the faculty who will serve as faculty mentors.

More information can be found here.