Our Data Relations: Empowering Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty and Data Futures

 

Krystal Tsosie is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences and School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Her genomics research interests are specific to Indigenous communities and people in health, biomedicine, conservation biology, and paleogenomics. She is also an expert in bioethics, data policy and governance, and developing digital data tools rooted in machine learning approaches to advance the sharing and informed consent of genomic data. Her research and Indigenous community advocacy is changing the ethical norms of research and policy across scientific disciplines. Her work is internationally covered in the media, and she is on ethical advisory boards for many national and international government and science policy organizations. She is most recently a board member-elect for the American Society of Human Genetics.

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