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“Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science
The African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG) was formed to provide a forum for human genetics and genomics scientists in Africa to interact, network, and collaborate. This is critical to facilitate development of solutions to the public health burden of many rare and common diseases across the cont...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35862495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E22-04-0122 |
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author | Wonkam, Ambroise Bardien, Soraya Diallo, Rokhaya Ndiaye Gaye, Amadou Alimohamed, Mohamed Zahir Kya, Siana Makani, Julie Landoure, Guida Mutesa, Leon El-Kamah, Ghada Mohamed, Amal Newport, Melanie Williams, Scott M. Ramsay, Michele Nembaware, Victoria |
author_facet | Wonkam, Ambroise Bardien, Soraya Diallo, Rokhaya Ndiaye Gaye, Amadou Alimohamed, Mohamed Zahir Kya, Siana Makani, Julie Landoure, Guida Mutesa, Leon El-Kamah, Ghada Mohamed, Amal Newport, Melanie Williams, Scott M. Ramsay, Michele Nembaware, Victoria |
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description | The African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG) was formed to provide a forum for human genetics and genomics scientists in Africa to interact, network, and collaborate. This is critical to facilitate development of solutions to the public health burden of many rare and common diseases across the continent. AfSHG fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement, which is dedicated to fighting racism and ensuring that society values the lives and humanity of Black people. The AfSHG would like to add its “voice” to the public outcry against racism sparked by George Floyd’s death and to declare its commitment to ensuring that injustice and systematic racism, as well as abuse and exploitation of Africans and their biological material, are no longer tolerated. This is particularly relevant now as African genomic variation is poised to make significant contributions across several disciplines including ancestry, personalized medicine, and novel drug discovery. “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters” is AfSHG’s call for the global community to support halting, and reversing, the perpetuation of exploitation of African people through neocolonial malpractices in genomic research. We also propose five key ways to curb racism in science, so that we can move forward together, with a common humanity, collectively embracing scientific endeavors. |
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spelling | pubmed-95826352022-11-01 “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science Wonkam, Ambroise Bardien, Soraya Diallo, Rokhaya Ndiaye Gaye, Amadou Alimohamed, Mohamed Zahir Kya, Siana Makani, Julie Landoure, Guida Mutesa, Leon El-Kamah, Ghada Mohamed, Amal Newport, Melanie Williams, Scott M. Ramsay, Michele Nembaware, Victoria Mol Biol Cell Voices The African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG) was formed to provide a forum for human genetics and genomics scientists in Africa to interact, network, and collaborate. This is critical to facilitate development of solutions to the public health burden of many rare and common diseases across the continent. AfSHG fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement, which is dedicated to fighting racism and ensuring that society values the lives and humanity of Black people. The AfSHG would like to add its “voice” to the public outcry against racism sparked by George Floyd’s death and to declare its commitment to ensuring that injustice and systematic racism, as well as abuse and exploitation of Africans and their biological material, are no longer tolerated. This is particularly relevant now as African genomic variation is poised to make significant contributions across several disciplines including ancestry, personalized medicine, and novel drug discovery. “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters” is AfSHG’s call for the global community to support halting, and reversing, the perpetuation of exploitation of African people through neocolonial malpractices in genomic research. We also propose five key ways to curb racism in science, so that we can move forward together, with a common humanity, collectively embracing scientific endeavors. The American Society for Cell Biology 2022-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9582635/ /pubmed/35862495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E22-04-0122 Text en © 2022 Wonkam et al. “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Creative Commons License. |
spellingShingle | Voices Wonkam, Ambroise Bardien, Soraya Diallo, Rokhaya Ndiaye Gaye, Amadou Alimohamed, Mohamed Zahir Kya, Siana Makani, Julie Landoure, Guida Mutesa, Leon El-Kamah, Ghada Mohamed, Amal Newport, Melanie Williams, Scott M. Ramsay, Michele Nembaware, Victoria “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
title | “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
title_full | “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
title_fullStr | “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
title_full_unstemmed | “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
title_short | “Black Lives Matter and Black Research Matters”: the African Society of Human Genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
title_sort | “black lives matter and black research matters”: the african society of human genetics’ call to halt racism in science |
topic | Voices |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35862495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E22-04-0122 |
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