Malia Fullerton

Professor, Bioethics and Humanities
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Genome Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Medical Genetics


Box 357120

, WA -

206-616-1864
smfllrtn@uw.edu

Research Interests

Research ethics questions in human genetics and genomics, with a particular emphasis on the role of genomics in the interrogation and address of ethnic health disparities

Education

DPhil Human Population Genetics, University of Oxford, 1995

In the News

Pentagon warns U.S. military not to take DNA tests due to potential ‘risks’
Global News, 12/24/2019

Prosecutors say DNA evidence and family tree research will convict a man of double murder
Q13 Fox, 06/28/2019

Lack of diversity in genetic research could be costing us our health
PBS, 03/21/2019

Genetically edited babies
KUOW, 11/28/2018

Don’t want the police to find you through a DNA database? It may already be too late
McClatchy, 08/31/2018

Signing up for 23andMe? You might be exposing your family to the FBI
KUOW, 05/08/2018

The Golden State Killer is tracked through a thicket of DNA, and experts shudder
The New York Times, 05/02/2018

Genomics is failing on diversity
Nature, 10/12/2016

Precision medicine: Teasing out ethical Q’s around patient info
HSNewsBeat, 02/05/2016

Researchers Concerned about the Health of Science
The Daily, 02/19/2014