Toward equity in cancer genetics: identifying racial disparities in cancer genetics services
This study uses multiple methods to explore racialized patients’ and providers’ experiences, needs, barriers and enablers to accessing cancer genetics services and to identify the nature and extent of the disparities in cancer genetics services and cancer outcomes in Ontario.
Lead: Yvonne Bombard
The genetic update: Designing and evaluating a patient platform to deliver updated genomic results
This projects aims to create a patient palform for genomic sequencing to facilite recontact of updated results. This has the potential to reduce burden and stress on patients recontacting providers for results.
Lead: Yvonne Bombard
The Genetics Adviser
Genomic sequencing is increasingly being used in genetic medicine to diagnose and optimize care for patients with rare genetic disorders. This technology also has the ability to detect a patient’s risk for thousands of current and future conditions (incidental genetic […]
Lead: Yvonne Bombard
Mainstreaming Adviser
This project aims to create a digital web application to help support the delivery of genetic testing education and results for cancer patients.
Lead: Yvonne Bombard
Genetics Navigator
The Genetics Navigator is the first and only digital application to deliver the full spectrum of clinical genetic services that can improve access, reduce wait times, and administrative burdens.
Lead: Yvonne Bombard
Developing a practical guide for conducting equitable genomics research with underrepresented and racialized populations
This study aims to identify barriers and solutions to conducting equitable genomics research through qualitative interviews with key stakeholders, including racialized community members and genomics researchers.
Lead: Yvonne Bombard
Dr. Yvonne Bombard is a genomics health services researcher and Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is a Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and directs the Genomics Health Services Research Program at St. Michael’s Hospital. She sets research direction at national and international levels as Board Member of the American Society of Human Genetics and CIHR’s Institute of Genetics. Dr. Bombard advises on funding recommendations on emerging genetic testing technologies for Ontario. She also shapes genomics health services research as an editor for Genetics in Medicine Open, the leading genetics practice journal. Dr. Bombard was the inaugural recipient of the Maurice McGregor Award for Demonstrated Excellence and Leadership Potential from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) and also received a ‘Rising Star’ award from CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. She has been awarded a CIHR Foundation grant as an Early Career Investigator, CIHR Maud Menten Early Career Prize in Genetics and recently received Canadian Cancer Society’s early career investigator award for her work and policy change.
Charlotte Calvez
MSc Graduate Student
Thesis: Barriers and Enablers to Equitable Genetic Research in Canada
Supervisors: Yvonne Bombard
Chloe Mighton
PhD Graduate Student
Thesis: Secondary findings from genomic sequencing
Supervisors: Yvonne Bombard
Understanding the care experiences and needs of hereditary cancer syndrome patients in Canada
Published: 2024
The Utility of Genomic Sequencing for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: A Mixed-Methods Cohort Study
Published: 2023