HERO Spotlight Event: Mapping Population Diversity - October 31, 2022
From Christy Navarro November 01, 2022
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From Christy Navarro November 01, 2022
Overview:
Racial and ethnic classification in research and medicine is rooted in a
centuries-long practice of categorizing humans into distinct groups to justify
colonization, slavery, and genocide. The legacy of these harms to communities
lingers today, as the U.S. still uses six distinct categories in racial and
ethnic classification for official reporting. Just as the human genome’s
complexity necessitates an updated reference, the spectrum of human diversity
requires a dynamic and inclusive model to account for social, cultural,
geographic, and genomic populations.
Here we present a graph-based data model and mobile application that facilitate
the collection, storage, aggregation, and use of open-ended, as well as
structured, data types. Categorical and free-text data from different studies
can be combined to reveal complexity in human populations that racialized
frameworks have erased.
Objectives: