Operationalize Biological Race

Define a narrow, operational biological category of 'race' for scientific and medical use that specifies criteria (e.g., patterns of correlated, heritable allele frequencies, clinically actionable differentiation) and separates that usage from social, legal, and moral meanings. The goal is to make the term usable in research and clinical contexts while preventing its conflation with social identity claims. — Creating an operational definition would let clinicians, geneticists, and policymakers use population‑level biological information where it matters (drug response, genetic risk) while minimizing misuse of the term in ideology or policy debates.