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Global public health in the era of genomics
The PHG Foundation joined with three major partners - the Centre for Bioethics (Indiana University, USA), the Centre of Genomics and Policy (McGill University, Canada) and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (University of Western Australia) - to organise an international expert summit held at Ickworth House, Suffolk UK, in the second week of May 2010.
Experts from a range of disciplines from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Netherlands, France, Italy, the USA and the UK met to consider the future direction and challenges for public health in an era of genome-based and personalised medicine, with a particular focus on global health. A report detailing their conclusions will be published later this year.
The meeting also involved a wider event, held on 12th May at Queen’s College, Cambridge and sponsored by the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) at the University of Cambridge, at which the guest speaker Sir Mark Walport (Director of the Wellcome Trust) spoke about the prospects for a ‘$100 genome’.
For more information, see: Press release (PDF)
Ickworth delegates
Ickworth delegates and other attendees at Queen’s College dinner
