NHGRI's Oral History Collection: Interview with Georgia Dunston (Part 2)

Part two of this oral history follows Georgia M. Dunston, Ph.D. as she and Dr. Francis Collins started the African American Diabetes Mellitus (AADM) Study and how Dr. Charles Rotimi began working for the study. She talks about when National Human Genome Center (NHGC) at Howard University formed and how she recruited the team for its Molecular Genetics Program. Dr. Dunston also describes how African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study Network started and how Africans were recruited to the International HapMap Project.

Questions asked in this interview:

00:13 - How did you and Francis Collins start the African American Diabetes Mellitus (AADM) Study?
04:37 - How did you, John Ruffin and Francis Collins establish genomic research projects in minority settings?
08:29 - What work involved studying health disparities?
15:08 - How did Charles Rotimi begin working on the AADM study?
18:20 - How was the African American Prostate Cancer Study Network started?
21:20 - How did you recruit the team at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University (NHGC)?
24:32 - How did the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program help you set up the NHGC?
25:33 - How did your human leukocyte antigen (HLA) research lead to getting a genetics laboratory at the NHGC?
30:22 - When did the NHGC officially open?
40:48 - What was George Bonney's role within the NHGC?
44:20 - What is the importance of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) research at the NHGC?
45:44 - How did Charmane Royal and Charles Rotimi recruit Africans for the International Haplotype (HapMap) Map Project?
47:22 - What were your initial thoughts about being the founding director of the NHGC?
49:36 - What are the benefits of running an institution that you helped start?