ELSI Committee

The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) committee is responsible for identifying, anticipating and being responsive to ELSI that concern IGES and the broad genetic epidemiology community. Its activities contribute to the development of guidelines, education, outreach material and activities on ELSI that are relevant to the IGES community.

Marie-Pierre Dubé (Chair since 2021)
Université de Montréal, Canada
(2020-)

Denise Daley (IGES Board liaison)
University of British Columbia
Canada
(2023-)

 Mohamad Saad
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
(2020-)

Amke Caliebe
Kiel University, Germany
(2019-)

Burcu Darst
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
USA
(2018-)
Fasil Tekola Avele
NIH, USA
(2019-)

Xuexia (Helen) Wang
Florida International University, USA
(2019-)

Ronnie Sebro 
Mayo Cinic, USA
(2019-)

Cheryl D. Cropp
Morehouse School of Medicine, USA
(2024-)

 Anvita Kulshrestha
(Young investigator representative)
Duke University, USA
(2024-)
 Emmanelle Bouzigon
INSERM, France
(2026-)
 

 

Past ELSI Committee Members