Jennifer Li-Pook-Than is the project manager for the SPHERE (Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity) Center.  She heads the multi-disciplinary effort to establish and coordinate Project 1 BRAICELET: Bio-Repository for American Indian Capacity, Education, Law, Economics and Technology.  More This endeavor is focused on big data-omics science, population health ethics, data sovereignty and community co-education; developing meaningful collaborations with counterparts in the Great Plains Tribes, including Black Hills Center for American Indian Health (BHCAIH), Missouri Breaks Industries Research (MBIRI) and the Native BioData Consortium (NBDC).  This work is also paralleled in Studies on AutoImmune Illnesses with the Lakota (SAIL), an over decade long relationship with the Snyder Lab, helping to harmonize the use of big-data science and meaningful dissemination with American Indian Tribal communities. She also leads the SPHERE lab core for Project 2: Integrative Personalized Omics Profiling (iPOP) for Obesity and Diabetes Risk in Latino Youth aims to reduce health disparities by developing and applying -omics technologies (Dr. Robinson) and Project 3: Precision Aging and Dementia for all Races and Ethnicities (Dr. Periyakoil). She also has a key role in iPOP projects (first author in seminal iPOP 2012 publication) with expertise in RNA biology (integration, transcriptome: allele specific expression and RNA editing) as well as auto-antibody protoarrays, whereby she is applying her techniques for a COVID-19 monitoring effort..

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