Mai Shehab, Zaynah Asad and Aman Ali: The Muslim Census

Muslim Census surveyed 1,007 Muslims aged 18-65+ living in the UK
to understand whether these pre-conceptions about Muslim’s
attitudes towards health research and genomics more broadly, as
well as health information, are based in fact. Our aim is for the
findings to help explore how to engage with Muslims to increase
Muslim representation in genetic research. Aman Ali, one of
Genomics England's proud ambassadors is joined by two health
researchers from Muslim Census, Mai Shehab and Zaynah Asad. They
discuss the lack of representation in the Muslim community and
how and why this must change in order to benefit the future of
healthcare. 


 


You can find our transcript here:
https://files.genomicsengland.co.uk/documents/Podcast-transcripts/The-Muslim-Census.docx 


 


"Over 70% of our respondents said that they were hopeful about
where developments in science and tech are going. It shows a
willingness to learn more and participate more."


 


Mai Shehab and Zaynah Asad joined Aman Ali, one of our
ambassadors, at the Genomics England Research Summit 2022. They
discussed the lack of Muslim representation in genetic and
genomics research, the lack of knowledge of genomic terminology
and genomics generally in Muslim communities and what genomics
England need to do to change these figures and engage more ethnic
communities in studies.