Public Health Genomics European Network (PHGEN) (EU Project No 2005313)
What are issues and priorities for Public Health Genomics? What are challenges linked to current national practices in applying genetic testing? Are there examples of best practice in applying genetic testing in Europe?
These are questions the EU funded “Public Health Genomics European Network (PHGEN)” sets out to answer. PHGEN runs from 1/2006 - 3/2009.
Aims of PHGEN:
To conduct a networking exercise on Public Health Genomics (PHG) covering all EU Member States, Applicant Countries, and EFTA-EEA countries.
To identify and list key experts relevant to PHG in these countries.
To provide an inventory of PHG-issues and priorities in Europe.
To contribute to the co-operation and exchange of information in order to enhance coherence and disseminate best practice.
To identify legal diversities and barriers in a cross-border market.
To promote and stimulate the countries’ efforts in this emerging field by developing PHGEN and by supporting effective networking in order to reach sustainability.
Thus, in the long run, PHGEN will serve the European Commission as an ‘early detection unit’ for horizon
scanning, fact finding, and monitoring of the integration of genome-based knowledge into public health.
PHGEN II is just approved. More to come soon.
Steering committee member as well as Co-chair of Working Group 4 (Research Needs and Priorities) in GraPH-Int (Genome-based Research and Population Health International Network), Toronto, Canada
Associated partner in the EU-funded project PIA-PHR (Policy Impact Assessment of Public Health Reporting)
Associated partner in the EU-funded projects EUREGIO I and II (European Regions)
Collaborating partner in the EU-funded project EUnetHTA (European Network of Health Technology Assessment), Kopenhagen, Denmark
Collaborating partner in the EU-funded project PHOEBE (Promoting Harmonization of Epidemiological Biobanks in Europe), Oslo, Norway
Collaborating partner of the EU-funded project EuroGentest, Leuven, Belgium