Wylie Burke is a Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington and a founding co-director of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network, which partners with underserved populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Burke's work focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic information for research and health care.

She then studied at the University of Washington, receiving a PhD in Genetics in 1974 and completing her MD with a residency in Internal Medicine.

[12] The network was formed in 2009 as a research partnership between tribal organizations and universities[3] to study pharmacogenomics in rural and underserved populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

[19] Burke was director of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) from 2002 to 2004 and a member of its Social Issues Committee from 2004 to 2006.

[21] She is regarded as a national leader in ethics and policy dealing with human genome research, addressing fundamental and difficult questions with respect for those involved.