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Email

christi.guerrini@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

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Texas

Education

JD from Harvard Law School

Cambridge, MA

BS from University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

MPH from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health

Houston, TX

Honors & Awards

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Materials

Professional Interests

• Ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics
• Citizen science
• Investigative genetic genealogy
• Misattributed parentage
• Wastewater monitoring

Professional Statement

Christi Guerrini is Associate Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. She serves as the Health Policy Pathway Director at BCM and lectures on health and science policy. Her research is focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications of biomedical research and emerging technologies. Prof. Guerrini has served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or co-investigator of research on investigative genetic genealogy, citizen science, health data sharing, and wastewater monitoring. She has published on these and related topics in scientific journals that include Science, Nature Biotechnology, and Genetics in Medicine, as well as in legal journals and other media. Prof. Guerrini has served on several national committees and working groups focused on developing best practices and policies for investigative genetic genealogy. Prior to joining BCM, she practiced law in Chicago and Houston, served as the Intellectual Property Fellow at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and taught legal research and writing at Chicago-Kent and Brooklyn Law School.

Selected Publications

• "." Science. 2018;361(6398):134-136.
• "." Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 2021;8
• "." American Journal of Human Genetics. 2022;109(3):486-497.
• "." Nature Biotechnology. 2017;35:22-24.