Dr. Krystal Tsosie

Dr. Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPH, MA (Diné/Navajo Nation) is genetic epidemiologist and bioethicist and 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, an Indigenous-led biological data repository and 501c3 Tribal research nonprofit organization. Her research areas are specific to Indigenous communities and people in health, precision medicine, biodiversity genomics, 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 Tribal-led data-based bioeconomies. 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.