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March 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Project staff at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics created supplementary material to enhance the use of a CD-ROM to teach genomics and genetics to undergraduate science students.
October 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a national survey on Americans' knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior regarding genetic testing and compared results to public opinion surveys from 1990.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Sun Valley Forum on National Health held a conference on August 3-7, 1997, in Sun Valley, Idaho, to review and discuss the implications of advances in molecular medicine for the improvement of health and health care.
March 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation organized two meetings of the Genetics Awareness Coalition.
October 12, 2009 | News Release
New platform for cross-researching genetic, health, environmental data could lead to better treatments, new ways to prevent illness.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2003, a California-based research group, the Institute for the Future, used two exploratory grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to assess health care decision-makers' knowledge about new discoveries in genetics and to develop two proposals for a major educational initiative to inform health care leaders about the new discoveries, their clinical applications and the legal and ethical issues surrounding them. In 2002, RWJF turned down the two proposals partly bec...
December 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation designed, launched and evaluated Genetics & Your Practice Online, an information and continuing education program to help health professionals integrate genetics into their practices.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Fred Friendly Seminars, in association with Thirteen/WNET, produced a three-part series called Our Genes/Our Choices, which the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) premiered nationally in January 2003 to some 2.3 million viewers.
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1998 through 2002, researchers at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center developed and pilot tested a Web-based tool for collecting family health history.
May 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The State of Arizona Department of Health Services held a conference on the future impact of advances in genetics. "Genetics in the 21st Century: Crisis and Opportunity" took place May 12-14, 1999, in Mesa, Ariz.