National Human Genome Center - GenEthics Unit

10/19/2009

OBA - SACGHS October 8-9, 2009 - Presentation Materials

~The Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society
(SACGHS) has released materials from the 20th meeting
held October 8-9, 2009 in Washington, DC.

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Program for Transdisciplinary Genomics

10/14/2009

Previous Community Engagements

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Overveiw

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Our Mission: o To integrate history and culture into the development of appropriate curricula and research models to predict community health outcomes (Health viewed holistically as embodied by the World Health Organization's definition – "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity").

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Our Mission: o To ensure knowledge from human genome research is adequately translated and appropriately contextualized from bench to bedside and beyond to benefit the community as a distinct, yet highly integrated and interactive part of a hierarchical biosocial system (i.e., individual, family, population group, community, and nation).