Julia Brown, PhD (she/her/hers)

Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Julia Brown is an anthropologist and Bioethicist based at the UCSF Bioethics Program, the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Global Mental Health at University of California, San Diego. She is author of "The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk conditions" (Routledge 2022). She holds an NIH K99/R00 Award from the National Human Genome Research Institute to conduct an “embedded ethics'' ethnography on the emergence of prenatal gene therapies. Her work focuses on the complex intersection between scientific, clinical, patient and societal values. This includes designing and conducting community engagement initiatives to investigate social values around prenatal gene technologies, including gene therapy and editing.

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Presentation(s):

• Editing Future Generations, Centering Translational Justice: How Do Potential End Users Imagine the Benefits and Tradeoffs of Prenatal Genetic Therapies?

  Wednesday, June 12, 2024
  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET