Engaging all of US for effective precision medicine - the university of utah and its community partners will bring a combination of experience and expertise that is well-suited to developing and…

Engaging all of US for effective precision medicine - the university of utah and its community partners will bring a combination of experience and expertise that is well-suited to developing and evaluating impactful engagements for the all of US research program. Key highlights from the details provided elsewhere in this proposal: genetic science learning center (gslc) at the university of utah - multi-talented team of 18 with a combination of science, education, science and health writing, visualization, and evaluation expertise - 20 years of experience in using community-based participatory design approaches to develop materials, including with underrepresented communities - experts in making complex science-including genetics, genomics, and personalized medicine-understandable for non-experts, with a focus on grade 5-10, patients, the public, and providers - award-winning, creative approaches to developing digital, experiential, and multicultural materials - developers of learn.genetics and teach.genetics, the most highly used life-science education websites in the world - rigorous evaluation methods used to assess the efficacy of and iteratively improve materials we develop - passionate about our mission of making science and health easy for everyone to understand community partners community faces of utah (CFU) - equitable collaborative among leaders of 5 diverse community organizations, the utah department of health, and the university of utah, established in 2009; each community leader leads a network of other organizations - committed to improving health in the african refugee/immigrant, african american, american indian/alaskan native, hispanic/latino (latinx), and pacific islander communities - began with projects to develop educational materials and programs focused on genetics and health - experienced in community-based, participatory design and CO-creation of materials, programs, and research studies equality utah - seeks to secure equal rights and protections for lesbian, GAY, bisexual, transgender & queer utahns and their families - has collaborated with CFU, researchers and ccet in conducting research studies community collaboration & engagement team (ccet) of the utah center for clinical & translational science (ccts) - sensitively facilitates academic-community partnerships; 10 years of experience - skilled at building trusting relationships with community leaders, organizations and members - supports multi-directional learning throughout projects - has developed and maintains relationships at the local, state, regional and national levels with a strong focus on underrepresented groups therapeutic games and apps lab (gapp lab), entertainment arts & engineering program (EAE), university of utah (EAE) - one of the top game development programs in the world; BS and MS degrees - gapp lab involves graduate students in developing health-related games and apps - established collaboration between gslc and EAE/gapp lab for developing digital engagements