Krystal Tsosie

Dr. Krystal Tsosie (Diné/Navajo Nation) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. She is also Associate Director of the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center at ASU. She also co-founded the Native BioData Consortium, the first Indigenous-led biological and data repository operating within the jurisdictional bounds of a US Tribal Nation. Her genomics research interests are specific to Indigenous communities and people in precision health, conservation biology, and paleogenomics. She is also an expert in bioethics, data policy and governance, and developing digital data tools rooted in machine learning approaches to advance the sharing and informed consent of genomic data. Her work is internationally covered in the media, and she is on ethical advisory boards for many national and international government and science policy organizations, including work with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the World Health Organization; the American Society of Human Genetics; and others.

Webinar Information

Title: Health inequities facing the Native American and Indigenous populations

Date: April 18, 2025

Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm

Abstract: Research, both qualitative and quantitative, has revealed disparities in access to specialty health care services such as cancer screening, direct care and monitoring for indigenous populations. Dr. Tsosie shared her experiences and research in uncovering the reasons for this lack of access as well as methods and actions taken to remediate this challenge for indigenous populations. She addressed the cultural barriers of lack of trust based on past experiences and history. and where students may look to find additional evidence of these inequalities.

Resources

Alexander, N., Eaton, C., Shrout, A., Tsinnajinnie, B., & Tsosie, K. (2022). Beyond Ethics: Considerations for Centering Equity-Minded Data Science. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 12(2), 254–300. https://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.OCYS6929

Boscarino, N., Cartwright, R. A., Fox, K., & Tsosie, K. S. (2022). Federated learning and Indigenous genomic data sovereignty. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(11), 909–911. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00551-y

Tsosie, K. S., Claw, K. G., & Garrison, N. A. (2021). Considering “Respect for Sovereignty” Beyond the Belmont Report and the Common Rule: Ethical and Legal Implications for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. American Journal of Bioethics, 21(10), 27–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2021.1968068

Tsosie, K. S., & Claw, K. G. (2020). Indigenizing Science and Reasserting Indigeneity in Research. Human Biology, 91(3), 137–140. https://doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.91.3.02

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