Projects and publications

Policy Committee's Letter to the Editor has been published in the March edition of AJPH! It is entitled "Breast Cancer Prevention Misinformation on Pinterest: One Side of a Thick Coin".

Kelly completed her masters' project in conjunction with the Policy Committee. For her project, she analyzed genomic policy in precision medicine.

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Chloe completed her masters' project in conjunction with the Policy Committee. She wrote about genetics knowledge among physicians assistants.

Action Board representative Stephen Modell published “Health in Our Hands: diabetes and substance use education through a new genomic framework for schools and communities” in the April 2023 Journal of Community Genetics. The article describes a 5-year, NIH-funded educational research program teaching 6ththrough 8th grade students in underserved Flint and Detroit, MI schools diabetes and substance use prevention with a community-based focus using Next Generation Science Standards. The program registered a 12% pre/post gain in perceived learning about genes and the environment as well as statistically significant gains in perceived learning about health and health conditions and the importance of what students learned to everyday life. Parents and community members helped with the community action research projects and discussed what the students were learning with them.