Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for Genomic Professionals 2025

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for Genomic Professionals is designed to highlight the fundamental approaches and limitations for professionals keen to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion in their genomic practice.

Programme overview

Addressing the diversity needed within genomic medicine and the equitable practice of genetic services are important and current challenges for today’s health professional. Differences in access to genetic services, recruitment of genetic professions and the experience of communities with medicine and genetics; all contribute to some of the disproportion in outcomes seen for different minoritised, protected and cultural groups in the UK.

This course is designed to highlight the fundamental approaches and limitations for professionals keen to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion in their genomic practice. Through the use of action learning sets participants will learn the basics of culturally competent service provision and the principles needed to develop outcome focussed change in their relevant professional groups. This course aims to support the development of practical and collaborative initiatives that work towards equity in genomic services and healthcare.

An interactive community will be available after registration so that you can use to interact with our course directors and your professional peer group throughout the course and beyond.

What can participants expect?

Objectives

Outcomes

Who should attend

This course is relevant for any healthcare professional undertaking a clinical role in clinical genomics seeking a structured and taught course that they can apply to practice. It is relevant for medical, nursing and midwifery, allied health and scientific colleagues, including; consultant geneticists, specialist registrars in genetics, genetic counsellors, clinical scientists in genetics, genetic nurse specialists and genomic researchers.

Latest agenda

09:30 – 09:40

Welcome and Introduction to workshop

09:40 – 09:55

Introductions

09:55 – 10:55

Self-reflection Exercise (Groups)

10:55 – 11:00

Moment of reflection (Video)

11:00 – 11:15

Comfort break

11:15 – 11:30

Thinking of multicultural clinical settings

Culture, equality and diversity in healthcare

The place of culture in genomic institutions

11:30 – 11:45

Culture, equality and diversity in healthcare

The place of culture in genomic institutions

Thinking of multicultural clinical settings

11:45 – 12:00

Comfort break

12:00 – 12:40

Exploring EDI values and behaviours in organisations (Group exercise)

12.40 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 13:40

Clinical Imperatives of EDI in genomic research’

Diversity and inclusion in big data

Management of transgender and gender-diverse patients with inherited cancer risks

13:40 – 13:50

Management of transgender and gender-diverse patients with inherited cancer risks

Clinical Imperatives of EDI in genomic research

Diversity and inclusion in big data

13:50 – 14:10

Q&A

14:10 – 14:50

Panel discussion

The Future is Community: The Case for Community-Led Collaborations to Address Inequalities

The Need for Community Engagement

Patient and Public inclusion in research design

14:50 – 15:10

Patient Expert

PPI rep for NHSE National Cancer Programme, Ambassador for Black Women Rising, Campaigner for Macmillan Ovarian Cancer and Women’s health advocate

15:10 – 15:15

Close

09:20 – 09:30

Introduction to day two and housekeeping

09:30 – 09:50

Patient Voice

09:50 – 10:05

Developing an EDI strategy for the Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (GMSA)

Professional and workforce standards in EDI from a healthcare professional lens

10:05 – 10:15

Professional and workforce standards in EDI from a healthcare professional lens

Developing an EDI strategy for the Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (GMSA)

10:15 – 11:00

Exercise: Change in organisations

11:00 – 11:10

Moment of reflection (Video)

11:10 – 11:40

Comfort break

11:40 – 11:50

Enhancing inclusion of diverse populations in genomics: a competence framework

Inequalities in Pharmacogenomics

Human population descriptors in genomics research

12:00 – 12:10

Inequalities in Pharmacogenomics

Human population descriptors in genomics research

Enhancing inclusion of diverse populations in genomics: a competence framework

12:10 – 12:50

Exercise: Challenges and solutions to EDI in Genomics

12:50 – 13:15

Comfort break

13:15 – 13:55

The Road Ahead: Goal setting and collaboration planning

13:55 – 14:00

Wrap up

How to book

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EDI for Genomic Professionals attendee

The best EDI course I have ever attended

EDI for Genomic Professionals attendee

Loved hearing what is currently going on and how to overcome challenges and asking the right questions

EDI for Genomic Professionals attendee

The content was excellent and the speakers really inspiring

EDI for Genomic Professionals attendee

This was a really insightful and reflective course