domingo, 5 de diciembre de 2010

PHG Foundation | Public health in an era of genome-based and personalised medicine


New Global Public Health Genomics Report Released

This month, a new report entitled Public Health in an Era of Genome-based and Personalized Medicine was released by an international, multidisciplinary expert group. The report focuses on key issues for the future of global public health given the rapid developments in genomic medicine and technologies. The expert group was convened in the United Kingdom in May 2010, by the PHG Foundation, the Center for Bioethics, the Centre of Genomics and Policy, and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Read the report and press release. Read a compendium article published in Genetics in Medicine.





Public health in an era of genome-based and personalised medicine
By Alison Hall | Back to reports


A new PHG Foundation report is based on an international, multidisciplinary expert summit held in the UK in May 2010.

Genomic medicine is an international issue; experts called for increased collaboration between different countries and recommended that appropriate health-related genetic services and research should be fostered in lower and middle-income countries (LMIC). Although financial resources are limited, there is increasing scope to put in place simple, useful services that can benefit patients.

For example, the PHG Foundation birth defects programme is helping people from LMICs to plan affordable services to reduce the substantial suffering caused by a wide range of birth defects with primarily genetic causes.

New efforts to integrate genomics into public health research and practice, including creation of research infrastructure for generating an evidence base for genomic medicine, were also proposed.

See the original article to download the report and related information:
•Full report: Public health in an era of genome-based and personalised medicine
•Press release: Public health in the genomic era: a global issue
•Article: Burke W et al. Genet. Med. 15 Nov 2010, doi: 10.1097/GIM.0b013e3182011222


How to reference this report: Public health in an era of genome-based and personalised medicine. PHG Foundation (2010). ISBN 978-1-907198-06-9.

For further information about the report, please contact Alison Hall

Please direct media enquires to the PHG Foundation press office on 44 (0)7505092081
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