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.