Disease, risk and prevention

 

How can the latest innovations in cancer screening or polygenic scores be implemented to better prevent ill health? Understand the practicalities, opportunities and challenges that need to be addressed through our analysis and briefings.

 

Unpacking polygenic scores

Polygenic scores are generating considerable debate in the biomedical and healthcare communities. Can they or can they not provide information that can be used in the prevention of common complex diseases?

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Drawn from discussions with researchers, academics and health professionals, this report sets out three priorities for action arising from technological revolution in diagnosis.

The changing nature of diagnosis: implications for policy, practice and patients

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PHG Foundation has been working with PROPHET.EU to build  a personalised prevention roadmap for the future healthcare.

A new roadmap for personalised prevention

In the innovative Project DELTA we led ethical, and legal research into personalised risk prediction and AI driven pathology to detect oesophageal cancer.

AI driven pathology to detect oesophageal cancer

 

Personalised health

We are unashamed champions of personalised health. And we are critical friends. Here’s what we are doing to make personalised health work for population health.

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Page created: 4 August 2025

Last updated: 9 March 2026