Office of Public Health Genomics
Tight Budgets Defund Key CDC Effort, but Director Will Retain Focus on Public Health Genomics
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Despite a massive budget shortfall, Office of Public Health Genomics Director Muin Khoury will continue to press for government policies and initiatives that promote safe and effective genomic medicine products from a public health perspective.
The "magnitude of net health benefit" from use of eight marketed tests analyzing 58 variants and 29 genes reviewed by the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention Working Group is "negligible," the expert panel wrote in a statement.
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Allen Roses, Muin Khoury, Mary Relling, Martin Godbout
"The promise of genomics in the practice of medicine is great and exciting, but today the use of personal genomic tests is still not ready for prime time," a CDC official said in a video address to doctors and the general public.
The CDC's Muin Khoury is disappointed in the paucity of genomics-related prevention and education objectives that have been proposed as part of the US federal government's Healthy People 2020 project.