The 32nd episode of the Progress Educational Trust podcast explores what needs to be done – and why – to ensure that people of diverse ancestries and social backgrounds are represented in genomic data, and in health-related data more generally, featuring contributions from Anika Ladva, Sasha Henriques, Professor Segun Fatumo and Dr Divya Shanmugam.
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