Healthcare Executive in Asia Leaders (HEAL) Programme

Precision Public Health: Transforming Health with Data

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Date:

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Time:

9.00am – 10.30am (Singapore Time)

Synopsis:

How does Precision Public Health (PPH) differ from traditional public health? While both rely on data for risk factor and disease surveillance, screening, interventions and evaluation, PPH borrows from precision medicine to provide a holistic approach to deliver ‘personalised’ public health. When additional data about people, place, and time are taken into consideration, PPH can give us a deeper understanding of complex health and causal systems. This improved understanding makes it possible to develop effective interventions that address social determinants of health as well as biological and behavioural factors for better health outcomes and the reduction of health inequities.

In this session, we will explore some real-life applications of PPH, and examine case studies on how clever use of data is fundamentally transforming public health, in order to offer a broad understanding of the topic to a multi-sectorial audience.

Speakers:

Prof Gareth Baynam
Head, Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies
Clinical Geneticist, Genetic Services of Western Australia
Program Director, Undiagnosed Diseases Program Western Australia
Government of Western Australia Department of Health