Cambridge Population Health Sciences
Bradford Hill Seminar – Diagnostic and predictive journeys: Finding the right balance in genomic medicine
All are invited to the Bradford Hill Seminar:
Diagnostic and predictive journeys: Finding the right balance in genomic medicine
Professor Anneke Lucassen
Professor of Genomic Medicine, University of Oxford
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Abstract
The growing use of genomic data in healthcare aims to balance predictive and diagnostic needs by supporting both disease prevention and clinical decision-making. Yet, the predictive potential of genomic information is frequently overstated, with the genome too often portrayed as a complete “blueprint” for health. Achieving an effective balance remains challenging, as genomic applications in public health prediction and clinical diagnosis continue to operate largely in isolation.
About Professor Lucassen
Professor Anneke Lucassen is Director of the Centre for Personalised Medicine, and a physician who specializes in clinical genetics. She is Professor of Genomic Medicine and consultant in clinical genetics at the University of Oxford (since 2021). She leads a research group at the University of Oxford that explores the clinical ethical, legal and societal issues (CELS) involved in developments in genomics and big data within medicine.
In Oxford, she directs the Centre for Personalised Medicine, an interdisciplinary environment, driving forward a more integrated and personalised approach to medicine and healthcare. Having served as chair of the British Society for Genetic Medicine (BSGM) from 2016 to 2020, Anneke now chairs the ethics advisory committee of UK Biobank and the Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine (JCGM).
About the Bradford Hill seminars
The Bradford Hill seminar series is the principal series of The Cambridge Population Health Sciences Partnership, in collaboration with the PHG Foundation. This comprises the Departments of Public Health & Primary Care, MRC Biostatistics Unit and MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, bringing together a multi-disciplinary partnership of academics and public health professionals. The Bradford Hill seminar programme of internationally recognised speakers covers topics of broad interest to our public health research community. It aims to transcend as well as connect the activities of our individual partners.
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