Dr Riley Taitingfong (USA)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Affiliation
University of California, San Diego
Biography
Riley Taitingfong is a postdoctoral researcher at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
Her current projects focus on indigenous self-determination and community engagement in relation to genetic engineering technologies and data privacy.
Riley holds a PhD from the Department of Communication at UCSD.
Expertise
Indigenous governance, emerging technologies, oceania, ethnography, community-engaged research.
Key Publication References
Hartley S, Taitingfong R and Fidelman P 2022 The principles driving gene drives for conservation Environmental Science and Policy 135: 36-45
Taitingfong R 2020 Islands as laboratories: indigenous knowledge and gene drives in the Pacific Human Biology 91(3):179-188
Schairer CE, Taitingfong R, Akbari OS, Bloss CS 2019 A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented examples in the field of novel vector control PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(11): e0007863
Kofler N and Taitingfong R 2020 Advances in genetic engineering test democracy's capacity for good decision-making The Boston Globe.