229:, and a Master's in Public Health Epidemiology. She began her work in cancer biology, and she developed and patented a combined targeted ultrasound imaging and chemotherapeutic drug delivery device for treating early metastases in cancer. However, realizing that her tribal community had difficulty accessing specialty services, she decided to change her focus to genomics and health disparities to better impact her community. While studying bioethics, Tsosie experienced the aftereffects of the
325:, when they do not have sufficient population samples to reach that conclusion. More importantly, she continues, being Indigenous is more than what can be discovered in a DNA test. She writes that those who take these tests and claim to belong to specific tribes are not understanding that no DNA test can indicate tribe, and making these claims is not respecting the tribes' rules regarding citizenship status - which is defined by culture and familial relationships in a living community.
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Indigenous and allied scholars working in Indigenous data sovereignty and governance across a variety of disciplines including law, public health, policy, and genomic
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Equitable Data Use Partnerships and Indigenous Data Sovereignties Amid Pandemic Genomics.” Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 9,
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is the right of nations to govern the collection, ownership, and application of their own data, in contrast to the ways in which researchers take and use
Indigenous data without permission and disregarding that Nation's traditions. Tsosie's work as an advocate for Indigenous data sovereignty has
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women and collaborates with the tribal-research review board. Tsosie's team hopes that examining potential environmental and sociocultural factors will help these specific Native women in decreasing such high rates specific to their tribe. She has also focused on researching
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