Organizational Profile: PHG Foundation

Abstract

The PHG Foundation is an independent, nonprofit think tank dedicated to making science work for health. Originally founded to imagine a future where genomics would underpin the practice of both medicine and public health, the Foundation’s focus is now on preparing for the future of personalized medicine, including forms of personalized disease prevention and early detection. A panoply of rapidly emerging scientific applications and technologies could be used alongside genomics to enable a fundamental shift toward increasingly effective and sustainable, person-centered health and care. Developing policy to anticipate and accelerate the uptake of such innovations into clinical and public health practice is more important than ever, and supporting the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Personalised Medicine is part of this effort.

Keywords::

• clinical implementation
• genomics
• innovation
• knowledge brokering
• patient-centered care
• personalized medicine
• policy translation
• precision medicine

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The PHG Foundation is an independent charitable company registered in England and Wales (charity no. 1118664, company no. 5823194) funded by philanthropic donations, grants and fees for commissioned work. The author is employed by the PHG Foundation. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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Funding

The PHG Foundation is an independent charitable company registered in England and Wales (charity no. 1118664, company no. 5823194) funded by philanthropic donations, grants and fees for commissioned work. The author is employed by the PHG Foundation. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.