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                Dear all,

We are happy to announce that the Technical University of Munich (Germany),
Imperial College London (UK), and the Aswan Heart Center (Egypt) will host an
international and interdisciplinary autumn school: Epi/Genomic Medicine and
Health Equity: Bridging Gaps Between Research and Practice. Please find more
information below, as well as in the flyer and call for application attached.


Epi/Genomic Medicine and Health Equity: Bridging Gaps Between Research and
Practice
Interdisciplinary Autumn School

When:

Week 1: 20.  22.10.2021 | 58pm (CEST) + 23.10.2021 | 10am1pm (CEST)
Week 2: 27.  29.10.2021 | 58pm (CEST)

Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Imperial College London (UK)
Aswan Heart Center (Egypt)

Where: virtual (Zoom)


Genomics and epigenomics have become crucial approaches to understanding
health and illness. While genomics traces how the underlying biology of
individuals shape their chances for health, epigenomics captures how
environmental experiences and exposures affect gene expression and thus
disease development. Together with big data and AI technologies, these
approaches are considered key for improving health care and disease prevention
and treatment now and in the future.

Both genomics and epigenomics raise a number of social, ethical and political
questions: genetic testing, for example, has been linked to the risk of
genetic discrimination. Epigenetic exposures are unequally distributed in
society: it is often the most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in
societies who are most exposed to toxins, infectious agents, antimicrobial
resistance, social stress and who have limited access to healthy foods,
appropriate treatment and green spaces, which has strong impact on the current
global health situation. With these considerations, the question emerges: how
we can ensure that epi/genomic medicine ultimately benefits society and
increases health equity rather than neglecting and stigmatizing those who are
most vulnerable?

In this virtual TUM-Imperial autumn school, we will bring together life
scientists, biomedical experts, social scientists and ethicists to address
these questions. We have developed an interdisciplinary teaching module that
offers state of the art teaching on epi/genomic medicine and its social,
ethical and political opportunities and challenges. The course offers an
interactive and dynamic format inviting interested post grad students and
young professionals (medical and post grad students, master students, PhDs,
engineers and data scientists, clinician scientists and postdocs) of all
relevant disciplines at TUM (Germany), Imperial College (UK) and from Aswan
Heart Centre network (Egypt).

A key aspect of the course is its communicative and interactive nature. From
the start you will be involved in discussion, exploring not just our experts
views, but also your own. The organisers of the course are committed to the
belief that ethical scientific innovation depends on open discussion and the
building of trust between scientists and the public. In the building of that
trust, scientific culture itself  how science conducts itself  is an
important matter for scientists to consider and debate. Ethics, professional
value, understanding the science and skills relevant to the field will
therefore be underlying themes of the course. In debating them you can expect
to develop a thorough understanding of the impact of genetics and epigenetics
in reducing health inequities, ethical awareness and skills in science
communication.

When:
Week 1: 20.- 22.10.2021 | 5  8pm (CEST) + 23.10.2021 | 10 am  1 pm
Week 2: 27  29. 10. 2021 | 5-8pm (CEST)

Where: virtual (Zoom)

Topics: Genomics and Epigenomics for Health, Genomics in a Global Context,
Global Health & Global Health Ethics, A.I. for Health, Rethinking Science
Communication

Speakers:

TUM

  *   Alena Buyx, Chair for Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies and
president of the German Ethics Council & Dr. Amelia Fiske, Chair for Ethics in
Medicine and Health Technologies
  *   Ruth Mller*, Co-director of Munich Center for Technology in Society,
School of Management & School of Life Sciences
  *   Clarissa Prazeres da Costa, Institute of Medical Microbiology,
Immunology and Hygiene, Co-founder and Co-director of TUM Center for Global
Health

Imperial College London / Aswan Heart Centre

  *   Yasmine Aguib*, National Heart and Lung Institute, Head of Life Sciences
Dept., Dep. Director of Research (Aswan Heart Centre).
  *   Dr. Deborah Morris-Rosendahl, Head of the Clinical Genetics and Genomics
Laboratory
  *   Paolo Vineis, Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College
  *   Stephen Webster, Director of the Science Communication Unit

+ external guest speakers: Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University), Jake
Metcalf (Data&Society), Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz), Ambroise Wonkam
(University of Cape Town) + tba

Registration deadline extended: 30 September 2021
Notification of Acceptance: End of September/Beginning of October

For registration & more info visit:
www.ge-gpx.com/epi-genomic

Network partners: TUM, Imperial, Aswan Heart Centre
Course Directors: Ruth Mller & Yasmine Aguib

The autumn school will be free of charge.

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Funded by: TUM Global Incentive Fund

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