Sandy Starr attended the 'Research for Genomic Equity' conference in London, organised by Genomics England as part of its Diverse Data initiative.
The conference discussed how best to diversify genomic data, and make genomics research and practice equitable. Sandy – who is deputy director of PET – spoke to conference participants about PET's 30th birthday report 'Fertility, Genomics and Embryo Research: Public Attitudes and Understanding'.
The 'Genetics and Genomics' section of PET's report takes stock of what the UK public think about the storage and use of genetic data, and about the prospect of routinely sequencing the whole genomes of newborn babies. This approach to newborn screening is being piloted by Genomics England, raising issues that have been explored in this series of events held jointly with PET.