You might know them as bloggers, but several of our main contributors are Health Content Scientists here at 23andMe.
Their day-to-day work touches on nearly every aspect of what 23andMe does. While they do a lot, their main job is finding the most important, scientifically valid and actionable genetic health information and getting that information to customers in the most understandable way possible.
“Being a health scientist at 23andMe gives you a unique opportunity — the chance to change the way people see genetics and their health,” said Emily Chang, who is part of the team.
Emily and her fellow Health Content Scientists are responsible for all the health content created by 23andMe, and they’ve been integral in developing many of the features and tools you see on the site.
To do it right, the work requires that they each draw on all their years of scientific experience to sort through the reams of genetic research that continues to flow from universities and labs. Finding interesting research isn’t hard, but finding information that has been validated and meets our strict standards takes patience and careful analysis. To then take that research and translate it into something that makes sense and is useful for the average person can also be a challenging problem – but one that our Health Content Scientists view as equally important.
One of 23andMe’s core missions is to be the world’s most trusted source of genetic information. To do that our team stays on top of the latest research and also digs deep to unearth results that could have a big impact on customers.
So when they’re not blogging, our Health Content Scientists are busy making sure 23andMe customers have the latest most important and actionable health information available.