Table 1.

Range of perspectives covered in workshop presentations.

Role	Focus of presentation
Clinical geneticist	Justifications for offering carrier screening, criteria for assessing public health screening, tensions in the goals of carrier screening, different social and cultural contexts in which screening can be offered, and queries regarding the conditions to screen
Screening policymaker	Criteria that guide government decision-making for population-based screening programs, including the Wilson and Jungner principles, and how these could be applied to preconception expanded carrier screening. Issues such as benefits and harms, public support, understanding the condition, testing, feasibility, and cost
Carrier screening program manager	Population and genetic conditions in Israel, national carrier screening programs, carrier rates in the population
Health economist	How health economics is used in decision-making processes, health technology assessment including cost–benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness, types of healthcare costs, and the kinds of health economic questions that arise in the context of developing screening programs
Health consumer advocate	What conditions to screen, benefits, challenges related to infrastructure, awareness, education, and engaging people
Ethicist	Commercial offers of expanded carrier screening and the range of conditions tested for, criteria to determine “severe” conditions, reproductive decision-making, individual, and social impact
Laboratory scientist	Carrier screening recommendations by professional bodies, test characteristics such as clinical utility and validity and analytic validity, technology that enables expanded carrier screening, condition/mutation selection, pathogenic variants detected and variants of uncertain significance, carrier frequency, education, and counseling
Disability rights advocate	Disability rights objections to expanded carrier screening, reproductive decisions after carrier screening, eugenics, in vitro fertilization, discrimination, condition selection
Clinical geneticist	The evolution of reproductive carrier screening, counseling, and education in the past and for expanded carrier screening