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LANDMARK PAPER in The Lancet

Six UWI academics co-authored a landmark paper that explored a framework for the ethical and socially acceptable conduct of genomics research in the Caribbean. The paper, prepared by Professors Donald Simeon, Simon Anderson, Dr. Lester Shields, Dr. Jasneth Mullings, Dr. Averell Bethelmy, Dr. Anna Kasafi Perkins and their US colleagues, Jyothsna Bolleddula and Professor Pilar Ossorio, was featured in The Lancet Regional Health-Americas, the worldleading public health journal focused on six regions of the world.

Titled “No Person Left Behind: Mapping the Health Policy Landscape for Genomics Research in The Caribbean Health Policy”, it addressed the Caribbean’s underrepresentation as a geographical region in the field of genomics. According to the paper’s summary, “Such underrepresentation may result in Caribbean people being underserved by precision medicine and other public health benefits of genomics.”