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Title and Department
Research Instructor
Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine
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Jibril Hirbo, PhD, is a Research Instructor in the Division of Genetic Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Hirbo’s research interest is in understanding genetics that underlie health disparities. He has an overarching hypothesis developed from his research in population genetics and in the genetics of common diseases with complex inheritance: that the genetic adaptation to high pathogen environments is a major contributing factor to the genetic component of health disparities between those of recent European and recent African ancestry. He studies genetics of ocular diseases to test this hypothesis.
Dr. Hirbo’s research interest is in understanding genetics that underlie health disparities. He has an overarching hypothesis developed from his research in population genetics and in the genetics of common diseases with complex inheritance: that the genetic adaptation to high pathogen environments is a major contributing factor to the genetic component of health disparities between those of recent European and recent African ancestry. He studies genetics of ocular diseases to test this hypothesis.