This month's seminar "Precision health and the genomics ecosystem in Canada" features Dr Rob Annan from Genome Canada.
Genomics is helping us tackle the greatest health challenges of our time, driving life-saving breakthroughs and unlocking revolutionary advances in personalised medicine. With a track record spanning more than two decades, Genome Canada’s investments and collaborations in human health genomics are speeding up diagnoses and improving health outcomes and disease management for Canadians, and addressing major public health challenges such as COVID-19 by improving the understanding of its transmission and distribution.
Genome Canada is focused on harnessing the power of genomics to strengthen public health and shift from a disease-oriented healthcare system to one that is more precise, personalised, predictive, preventative and cost effective. To do so, however, key challenges such as barriers to data generation and data sharing must be addressed. Dr Annan's presentation focuses on learnings from two efforts led by Genome Canada: All for One, a precision health initiative for patients with rare diseases, and the Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network, a coordinated pan-Canadian, cross-agency network for large-scale viral and human genome sequencing during the pandemic.
DNA dialogue seminars are held live via zoom on the last Thursday of each month at 8am (AEST). Registration is open to anyone working in, or impacted by, medical genomics.
You can find details on upcoming DNA dialogue seminars, and all Australian Genomics events, via the Australian Genomics website: www.australiangenomics.org.au/category/events/
7 окт 2024
