Indigenous Peoples
Health, Sciences and Resources of Indigenous Peoples: Decolonizing Nations Built on Conquest
Health, Sciences and Resources of Indigenous Peoples: Decolonizing Nations Built on Conquest
The commodification of data and -omics resources is a growing concern worldwide, especially considering that there isn't a path to equitable delivery systems....or profit sharing. In essence, the formerly colonized will fund their own relegation to a consumer society with their own genomes and genomes of the plants and animals under their purview.
References
- Fawn Sharp: Tribal Consent Becomes the Law in Washington State, May 21, 2021, Indianz.com
- When DNA Research Doesn't Benefit All of Us, (Podcast) Air Date: May 21, 2021, NPR
- Game of Bones: Power, Ethics, and Emerging Technology in Paleogenomics Research, May 12, 2021
- Righting Decades of Wrong: Countering the Impact of Racism on Health, Hanae Armitage, May 10, 2021, Stanford Medicine
- Realizing the Self-Determination Goals of Indigenous People in Genetics Research, ELSI Hub, April 28, 2021
- Te Pūtahitanga: Fashioning Our Own Whare for Science and Policy in Aotearoa, The Spinoff, April 28, 2021
- Weaving Indigenous and western knowledge: How Indigenous researchers and communities are working in partnership with universities and non-Indigenous researchers to shape the future of environmental sciences. University Affairs, April 27, 2021
- Disruptive Technologies: Dystopian or Utopian. The People Have the Power, August 2020
- To overcome decades of mistrust, a workshop aims to train Indigenous researchers to be their own genome experts. Science Magazine, Sept. 2018
- Indigenous researchers call for ethical genomics projects Medill Reports Chicago, Health and Science, Social Justice, Spring 2021, Technology
- Genomic Research Through an Indigenous Lens: Understanding the Expectations, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, March 2019
The Native BioData Consortium: A Beginning
Ten Minute Mini Documentary describing the rights, need and future of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Science Implementation
The Native BioData Consortium (NBDC) is the first 501(c)(3) nonprofit research institute led by Indigenous scientists and tribal members in the United States. NBDC executive director, Indigenous biomedical researcher with Indigenomics, Joseph M. Yracheta, MS, is a Doctor of Public Health candidate in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This page is contributed by Joseph M. Yracheta, MS, DrPH Candidate, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering — Indigenous Affiliations: P'urhepecha y Raramuri