Charmaine Royal - Race, Genetics, and Health

Race, Genes, and Health: A webinar lecture and panel discussion with Professor Charmaine Royal. REGISTER HERE. Panelists are Dr. Mariola Espinosa (UI Dept. of History), Dr. Professor Phoebe Jean-Pierre (UI College of Law) and Dr. Brian Donovan (BSCE Science Learning).

Charmaine Royal is a 2020 Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. She is Professor of African & African American Studies, Biology, Global Health, and Family Medicine & Community Health at Duke University. She also has appointments in the Duke Initiative for Science & Society and the Kenan Institute for Ethics. She directs the Duke Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference and the Duke Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation.

Dr. Royal’s research, scholarship, and teaching are transdisciplinary and global, focusing on ethical, social, scientific, and clinical implications of genetics and genomics, particularly issues at the intersection of genetics and ‘race’. Her primary goal is to dismantle ideologies and systems of ‘race’ and racism in research, healthcare, and society. She serves on numerous domestic and international advisory committees and boards pertaining to her work.

Sponsored by Iowa City Darwin Day, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, the Public Policy Center, the College of Law, the Obermann Center, the Delta Center, the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics, the Genetics Cluster Initiative, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, the College of Public Health Center, the UI Libraries, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Division of Internal Medicine, the College of Medicine, the Old Capitol Museums, Integrated DNA Technologies, Green State Credit Union, Hills Bank, FilmScene, Nodo, and the Departments of Biology, Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rhetoric, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies.