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Alice Popejoy

Alice Popejoy

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Division, University of California, Davis
Dr. Alice B. Popejoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences (Division of Epidemiology) at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis Health). The Popejoy Public Health Genomics lab operates at the intersections of computational genomics, population genetics, clinical genetics, biomedical data science, and bioethics. This interdisciplinary research program is focused on novel approaches to modeling human population diversity and translating insights from basic research in genetics/genomics into clinical applications across multiple disciplines, with a current focus on research and clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics to improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequities. Dr. Popejoy has been involved in several international genomics Consortia, leading the Ancestry & Diversity Working Group of the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen), in which she spearheaded an action plan for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion; as well as the Ancestry subgroup of the Sequencing & Diagnostic Yield (SADY) Working Group of the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-generating Research Consortium (CSER), and the embedded ethical, legal, social implications (ELSI) team of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC). In addition to NIH-funded consortium work, Dr. Popejoy has been involved in community-based participatory work, including the Pathways to American Indian and Alaska Native Wellness (PAAW) Community Action Board (AICAB) through Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity (SPHERE). She previously conducted postdoctoral research from 2017 to 2021 at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science and the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics after receiving a PhD in Public Health Genetics (2017) and a Certificate in Statistical Genetics (2015) from the University of Washington. Before graduate school, Dr. Popejoy received a double B.A. in Biology and French from Hamilton College, and worked in science policy advocacy and research in Washington, DC on broadening participation of under-represented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from 2010-2012.
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