About Us

Dr Philippa Brice - Communications Director

Philippa Brice oversees communications and knowledge management for the Foundation. In addition to being editor-in-chief and lead contributor to our Genomics and Policy News service, she also writes for a range of media about our work and more generally on genomics, biomedicine and clinical translation. Philippa works with the programme and development teams to publicise and promote our aims, projects and activities. She also runs our Press Office to provide information for the media on the work of the PHG Foundation, and on genomics and biomedicinein general.

Prior to joining us in 2003, Philippa worked in biomedical intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Christ’s College, Cambridge, studying Natural Sciences (Pathology) and doing PhD research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

At the PHG Foundation, Philippa has previously worked on policy development in the use of microarrays in cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and the application of biomarkers in molecular screening for familial colorectal cancer. She also led our intensive Genetics and Health Policy course, and a Masters course module on Public Health Genomics for the University of Hong Kong.

Selected recent publications:

• Wright CF, Brice P, Stewart A, Burton H. Realising the benefits of genetics for health Lancet  376(9750): 1370-71(2010) 
• Brice P. Lost in translation? Public Service Review: Central Government  Issue 19 (2009)
• Zimmern RL. and Brice PC. Realizing the potential of genomics: translation is not translational research. Genet Med. Dec;11(12):898-9 (2009)
• Brice P. and Zimmern R. The Public Health Genomics Enterprise in Human Genome Epidemiology, 2nd edition, ed. Khoury MJ et al., OUP (2008)
  
   

Selected recent presentations:

• Speaker in Battle of Ideas debate, Genetics and genomics: medicine made to measure? 31 October 2009

Please visit PHG Foundation’s resources page for a list of our publications and other work by members of our staff.