Email

christi.guerrini@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Baylor College of Medicine
Texas

Education

JD from Harvard Law School

Cambridge, MA

BS from University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

MPH from UTHealth School of Public Health

Houston, TX

Honors & Awards

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation

Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Materials

Professional Interests

• Ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics
• Data privacy
• Consumer genetics
• Investigative genetic genealogy
• Misattributed parentage
• Wastewater surveillance ethics
• Biomedical citizen science

Professional Statement

Christi Guerrini is Associate Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. She serves as the Health Policy Pathway Director at BCM and lectures on health and science policy. Her research is focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications of biomedical research and emerging technologies. Prof. Guerrini has served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or co-investigator of research on investigative genetic genealogy, citizen science, health data sharing, and wastewater monitoring. She has published on these and related topics in scientific journals that include Science, Nature Biotechnology, and Genetics in Medicine, as well as in legal journals and other media. Prof. Guerrini has served on national committees and working groups focused on developing best practices and policies for investigative genetic genealogy. Prior to joining BCM, she practiced law in Chicago and Houston, served as the Intellectual Property Fellow at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and taught legal research and writing at Chicago-Kent and Brooklyn Law School.

Selected Publications

• "Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: value and risk." Annual Review of Medicine. 2020;72:151-166.
• "Family secrets: experiences and outcomes of participating in direct-to-consumer genetic relative-finder services." American Journal of Human Genetics. 2022;109(3):486-497.
• "Four misconceptions about investigative genetic genealogy." Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 2021;8
• "IGG in the trenches: results of an in-depth interview study on the practice, politics, and future of investigative genetic genealogy." Forensic Science International. 2024;111946.