Another major topic of negotiation in the conduct of genomic research is how best to respect the interests of communities when they are recruited to represent larger populations. Projects were presented testing and proposing methods for building trust between the public and the scientific community, by improving the dialogue between them about the risks, benefits, and meaning of participating in translational research, such as Anderson’s study of methods for promoting dialogue on the research uses of residual newborn screening bloodspots [B-4]; Whitener’s proposal for engaging American Indian communities in research through community-based system development [A-5]; or West’s project on developing common language for cross-cultural genetic research [A-5].
