Genes & Justice: Program

8:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.	Introductory Remarks

9:15 a.m.	Keynote Address Rev. Dr. James A Forbes Jr., President, Healing of the Nations Foundation; Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church

9:45 a.m.	What's It All About? Genetics 101 Jose Morales, PhD, Rockefeller University, Public Interest Biotechnology

10:45 a.m.	Break

11:00 a.m.	Plenary: What Do We Know? Genetics, Health and Race An overview of Genes and Justice from experts working in health-related fields, including environmental health, medicine, and epidemiology. MODERATOR: Jose Morales, PhD, Rockefeller University, Public Interest Biotechnology PANELISTS: Harold Freeman, MD, President and Founder, Ralph Lauren Cancer Center in Harlem NY; Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Cancer Institute Sharon L.R. Kardia, PhD, Director, Public Health Genetics Program, Co-Director, Michigan Center for Genomics and Public Health, Co-Director, Life Sciences and Society Program, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology Nancy Krieger, PhD, Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Kenneth Olden, PhD, ScD, Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, National Institutes of Health, DHHS

12:30 p.m.	Lunch

1:15 p.m.	Panel: Law, Regulation, and Social Justice An overview of Genes and Justice from experts working in the social sciences and the law, highlighting the regulation of genetic information, criminal justice, and its implications for social justice. MODERATOR: Charmaine D. M. Royal, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University PANELISTS: Troy Duster, PhD, Silver Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University; Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley Harry G. Levine, PhD, Professor, Department of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York Peter Neufeld, JD, Co-founder and Co-director of The Innocence Project; Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, LLP Dorothy Roberts, JD, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

2:15 p.m.	Break

2:25 p.m.	Panel: Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Research Ethics An exploration of potential benefits posed by genetics testing and counseling for individuals, families and communities, as well as ethical issues related to confidentiality, informed consent, and ideas of community consent. PANELISTS: Kwame Anyane-Yeboa, MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Clinical Genetics Jamie D. Brooks, JD, Project Director on Race, Health and Justice, Center for Genetics and Society Celia Fisher, PhD, Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology, Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education; Chair of EPA Human Research Subjects Board Kurt Hirschhorn, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Medicine, Chairman Emeritus, Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

3:45 p.m.	The Way Forward: Advancing Policies that Promote Health, Equity and Justice MODERATOR: Cecil Corbin-Mark, MPhil, Program Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice PANELISTS: Sharon L.R. Kardia, PhD, Director, Public Health Genetics Program, Co-Director, Michigan Center for Genomics and Public Health, Co-Director, Life Sciences and Society Program, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology Dorothy Roberts, JD, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law; faculty fellow, Institute for Policy Research Charmaine D. M. Royal, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, the Praxis Project

4:45 p.m.	Closing Remarks

5:00 p.m.	Reception