Beyond public health genomics: proposals from an international working group

Stefania Boccia1, Martin Mc Kee1, Roza Adany1

  • 1Section of Hygiene-Department of Public Health-Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Institute for Translational Epidemiology and Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA, PHG Foundation, Cambridge, UK, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale and Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Joint Unit 1027 "Epidemiology and analyses in public health", Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse, France, Clinical Genetics & EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Better ValueHealthCare, UK, Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, CDC Office of Public Health Genomics, Atlanta, USA, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Departments of Epidemiology and Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza "University of Rome, Rome, Italy, PHG Foundation, Cambridge, UK and Area of Systems Medicine, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy.

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