Personalised Health Care

Introduction (Boccia).- 1. Chapter 1: Identification of biomarkers for the prevention of chronic disease (Editors: Adany, Boccia).- 2. Chapter 2: Evaluation of predictive genomic applications (Editor: Villari). -3. Chapter 3: Ethico-legal and policy issues surrounding personalised medicine (Editor: Sandor).-  olicy issue, with a focus on citizens and DTC) 3.4 Sandor (Legal issue).- 4. Chapter 4: Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in informing healthy individuals on their genome: a sociotechnical analysis (Editor: Cornel).- 5. Chapter 5: Identification of organizational models for the provision of predictive genomic applications (Editor: De Vito).

Stefania Boccia, PhD, DSc, MS, is Full professor of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Rome, Italy. She is the Director of the Section of Hygiene of the Department of Health Science and Public Health of UCSC and President of the Public Health Epidemiology Section of European Public Health Association (EUPHA). A Biologist by training and Specialist in Clinical Pathology, she obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a Doctor of Science and PhD in Genetic Epidemiology at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From 2016 to 2018 she was Adjunct Professor at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York, NY, USA. In 2018 she founded the spin-off "Vihtali srl" (Value In Health Technology and Academy for Leadership & Innovation) at UCSC. She currently coordinates the project titled "European network staff eXchange for integrAting precision health in the health Care sysTems" (ExACT) funded by the European Commission (EC) within the H2020 Marie-Slodowska Curie projects (MSCA-RISE). She is currently partner of several EU-funded projects; among them is  "Integrating China in the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine" (IC2PerMed, CSA) as a member of the Coordinating group. She is author and co-author of 216 scientific publications; her h-index (Scopus) is 37 and citation count is 5350.
Róza Ádány, MD, PhD, DSc, is a medical doctor with specialization in the field of preventive medicine and public health. She is Professor of public health at the University of Debrecen, Hungary; founding Dean of the Faculty of Public Health; leader of the Public Health Research Group funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Vulnerability and Health; and President of the Public Health Genomics Section of the European Public Health Association. She also acts as president of the Hungarian Associationof Public Health Training