Category: population health

Precision Medicine and Population Health: Dealing With the Elephant in the Room

a elephant in a room with a crowd on one side and doctors on the other side including DNA above on the wall

In this week’s Journal of American Medical Association, we published a point-counterpoint commentary on the impact of precision medicine on population health. Announcement of the news of the US precision medicine initiative has been met with a range of responses from enthusiasm to skepticism about potential benefits, limitations and return on investment. In considering the Read More >

August 17, 2016 by Muin J. Khoury, Director, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Sandro Galea, Dean, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts2 Comments

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Genomic Tests and Population Health: An Online Catalog to Promote a Conversation on Evolving Evidence

With the rapid emergence of genomic tests, healthcare providers, patients and policy makers need to know how useful they are and whether the benefits of their use outweigh potential harms to patients, families, and the population. CDC’s Office of Public Health Genomics now offers a list of health-related genomic tests and applications, stratified into Read More >

May 3, 2012 by Muin J Khoury, Director, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention4 Comments

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disease prevention, genetic testing, genetics, genomics, population health, public health