A Web Screening on Educational Initiatives to Increase Citizens’ Literacy on Genomics and Genetics

Abstract

Overall, we identified a variety of initiatives aimed at improving citizens' literacy in omics sciences, with the largest majority carried out in the United States and being web-based. Our results showed heterogeneity among the initiatives as to the dealt topics and the adopted methods. Further research is needed, however, to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of educational initiatives to improve citizens' literacy in omics sciences.