India, April 4 -- A national legislative ban on life insurers discriminating against applicants based on genetic testing would create an opportunity for the Australian government to invest in preventive genomic screening, says a leading genomics expert from Monash University.
The Federal Parliament is today expected to pass the legislative ban, which is set to come into effect later this year.
It is the culmination of a decade of advocacy by Monash legal and genomic expert Dr Jane Tiller, who has worked closely with the government on the reform, including leading a three-year research project that explored stakeholder views to inform the new legislation.
"It is just extraordinary to be here after almost a decade of advocacy, with an actu...