This film documents a conversation between Sandy Starr (deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust) and Simon Wilde (engagement director at Genomics England) about a new report on whole genome sequencing and newborn screening.
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
| The main themes of the conversation are as follows. | |
| 00:00 | Background to Genomics England |
| 01:21 | Background to newborn screening |
| 02:50 | How the public dialogue was conducted |
| 03:55 | Converging and diverging views |
| 05:45 | Challenges posed by genomics |
| 08:11 | Discussing genomics during a pandemic |
| 09:48 | Key findings and messages of the public dialogue |
| 11:49 | What will happen next? |
The report discussed by Sandy Starr and Simon Wilde is 'mplications of Whole Genome Sequencing for Newborn Screening: A Public Dialogue '.
Simon also mentions the following two reports:
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