About me
A passionate advocate for access to healthcare and equitable science, Lisa Rooney Slater joined Roche in 2012. She has worked across the company holding positions at Genentech in South San Francisco, California and the global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland before relocating with her family to Nairobi, Kenya in 2018. Lisa is currently the Head of African Genomics Program, which aims to maximize the diversity of populations included in research and development, especially those of African ancestry represented both on and off the continent. The program works to support the efforts of African institutions and researchers to accelerate genomic research on the African continent and catalyse the open federation of large scale clinical, genomics and outcomes biobanks hosted in Africa.