{"id":78510,"date":"2025-08-19T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78510\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:55:08","slug":"building-public-awareness-and-trust-in-genetic-research-wafaa-m-rashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78510\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Public Awareness and Trust in Genetic Research &#8211; Wafaa M Rashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wafaa M Rashed, Chair and Founder of PAPERI (Pan-African PGS Education and Research Initiative), shared a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/wafaa-m-rashed-bpharm-msc-phd-bcnsp-02642a125_building-public-awareness-and-trust-in-genetic-activity-7363260906236981251-XU20?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAEzZZ4YBvfyq2CUkcFwoCr4gaLxikNJE6oQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Blog Alert!<\/p>\n<p>Building Public Awareness and Trust in Genetic Research: Strategies for African Nations<\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled to share a thought-provoking and timely blog by Mr. Mutaz Mohammed, a passionate young health policy advocate from Sudan and a proud graduate of PAPERI\u2019s Policy Advocacy in Genetics and Genomics Course.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Africa\u2019s genomic future will be shaped less by algorithms and more by the trust cultivated between scientists and the communities they serve.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In this compelling piece, Mutaz calls on African governments, researchers, and civil society to prioritize public trust, ethical engagement, and community partnership as the continent accelerates genomic research.<\/p>\n<p>Why this matters:<\/p>\n<p>Youth voices like Mutaz\u2019s are shaping Africa\u2019s scientific future \u2014 from the ground up.<br \/>\nPublic trust is the foundation of ethical, equitable, and impactful genetic research.<br \/>\nAfrican-designed solutions are essential to ensure our communities are not subjects of research, but partners in discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Key Insights from the Blog:<\/p>\n<p>The roots of mistrust in genetic research \u2014 and how to address them<br \/>\nStrategies to raise public awareness and combat misinformation<br \/>\nCommunity engagement as a pillar of ethical genomics<br \/>\nSuccess stories from across Africa that show the way forward<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social8693.wordpress.com\/2025\/08\/18\/building-public-awareness-and-trust-in-genetic-research-strategies-for-african-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read<\/a> the full blog here.<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s young scientists and advocates are not just writing blogs \u2014 they are rewriting the narrative of global health equity. Voices like Mutaz\u2019s will lead the change we want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More posts featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/wafaa-m-rashed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wafaa M Rashed<\/a> on OncoDaily,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wafaa M Rashed, Chair and Founder of PAPERI (Pan-African PGS Education and Research Initiative), shared a post on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[916,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-78510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}