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Families SHARE

Families Sharing Health Assessment and Risk Evaluation (SHARE) helps families learn how their family health history affects their risk for diseases. It is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute. Your family health history plays a part in your risk and your family members’ risk for many different diseases.

Overview

Below are links to the Families SHARE disease risk worksheets. The worksheets will help you work out family members’ risk for these diseases based on their family health history.

After you finish a worksheet, share the information with your family members!

Below are also Families SHARE workbooks, which are now available in four languages.

 

  • Overview

    Below are links to the Families SHARE disease risk worksheets. The worksheets will help you work out family members’ risk for these diseases based on their family health history.

    After you finish a worksheet, share the information with your family members!

    Below are also Families SHARE workbooks, which are now available in four languages.

     

Families SHARE Disease Worksheets

 

Grandmother and daughter side-by-side

Families SHARE Workbooks

 

Families SHARE global pedigree

Publications

Nummelin, J.R., Brookes, J.J., Bishop, R.A. et al. The families SHARE project: novel insights on recruiting and engaging Black men in a community-based genomic education program. BMC Public Health 25, 805 (2025).

de la Haye K, Whitted C, Koehly LM. Formative Evaluation of the Families SHARE Disease Risk Tool among Low-Income African Americans. Public Health Genomics, 2021. DOI: 10.1159/000517309.

Koehly LM, Morris BA, Skapinsky K, Goergen A, Ludden A.  Evaluation of the Families SHARE workbook: an educational tool outlining disease risk and healthy guidelines to reduce risk of heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer.  BMC Public Health,  15: 1120, 2015. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2483-x.

Last updated: March 21, 2025