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Executive Director
Native Bio-Data Consortium, South Dakota
Joseph M. Yracheta is an Amerindigenous Scientist (P’urhepecha y Raramuri from Mexico) at the Native BioData
Consortium within the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation (Sioux). Mr. Yracheta has been a scientist since 1990
where he started as a bench biotechnician and worked across many biomedical disciplines. In 2014 he
graduated from the UW-Seattle with a master’s of Pharmaceutics and Bioethics under Drs. Ken Thummel and
Wylie Burke. He is currently finishing a DrPH in Environmental Health and Engineering from Johns-Hopkins
under Drs. Ana Navas-Acien and Paul Locke. Mr. Yracheta is passionately working to end Amerindigenous
Health Disparity by the "wearing many research hats" of law, ethics, policy, genomics, omics, health outcomes,
epidemiology, health care prevention/intervention and allostatic load from systemic racism. Mr. Yracheta
believes that ALL data and resources must be seen as unforeseen futures, where their value will constantly
change. He feels this data must be secured for Indigenous economic sustainability.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Deliberating Genomic Research: Ethical Engagement and Research with Indigenous Communities
Friday, October 13, 2023
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM ET