The Genomic Equity Series is a monthly online series hosted by the Diverse Data initiative at Genomics England, in collaboration with the Data Science for Health Equity community, which aims to share the latest experiences, projects and research of those working to improve equity in genomic medicine across the world.

For this month's instalment of the Genomic Equity series, we are delighted to host Dr. Genevieve Wojcik from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health share her extensive research and work in the area of polygenic risk in admixed groups. The field of human genetics and genomics has an assumptions problem. Specifically, we often assume that the default population is one of relatively homogeneous European ancestry and therefore build our frameworks and resources accordingly. These assumptions limit our efforts towards health equity, not only as manifested in the gross underrepresentation of non-European ancestry groups, but also how we model these…