Advocacy

ASHG President David Nelson wrote in support of a U.S. bill to expand access to genetic counseling services for Medicare beneficiaries. Read More

Family reunification on the U.S.-Mexico border involved DNA testing, raising genetic privacy concerns. We thank Reps. Kaptur & Clark for addressing this issue. Read More

Written by Burcu Darst, ASHG Training and Development Committee Member, Nascent Transcript Lead November 2018  The 2018 Rally for Medical Research took place on September 12-13 in Washington, D.C., in the midst of the fiscal year 2019 budget negotiations for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). As representatives of ASHG trainees, Lauren Tindale, PhD,... Read More

Policy and Advocacy Activities at ASHG 2018 November 2018  One of the many opportunities afforded by this year’s ASHG Annual Meeting in San Diego was the chance to highlight important policy issues affecting genetics, as well as learn more about the Society’s efforts in policy and advocacy. I attended two sessions at this year’s meeting... Read More

The FY19 NIH budget, passed on time for the first time in two decades, reflects a $2 billion increase that will help advance genetics and genomics research. Read More