Precision Public Health for Non-communicable Diseases: An Emerging Strategic Roadmap and Multinational Use Cases

Oliver J. Canfell; Oliver J. Canfell; Oliver J. Canfell; Oliver J. Canfell; Kamila Davidson; Leanna Woods; Leanna Woods; Clair Sullivan; Clair Sullivan; Clair Sullivan; Noelle M. Cocoros; Michael Klompas; Michael Klompas; Bob Zambarano; Elizabeth Eakin; Robyn Littlewood; Andrew Burton-Jones

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.854525

Frontiers in Public Health (Apr 2022)

Precision Public Health for Non-communicable Diseases: An Emerging Strategic Roadmap and Multinational Use Cases

Oliver J. Canfell,
Oliver J. Canfell,
Oliver J. Canfell,
Oliver J. Canfell,
Kamila Davidson,
Leanna Woods,
Leanna Woods,
Clair Sullivan,
Clair Sullivan,
Clair Sullivan,
Noelle M. Cocoros,
Michael Klompas,
Michael Klompas,
Bob Zambarano,
Elizabeth Eakin,
Robyn Littlewood,
Andrew Burton-Jones

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Oliver J. Canfell: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Oliver J. Canfell: UQ Business School, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Oliver J. Canfell: Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, Australian Government, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Oliver J. Canfell: Health and Wellbeing Queensland, Queensland Government, The State of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Kamila Davidson: UQ Business School, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Leanna Woods: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Leanna Woods: Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, Australian Government, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Clair Sullivan: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Clair Sullivan: Health and Wellbeing Queensland, Queensland Government, The State of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Clair Sullivan: Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Department of Health, Queensland Government, Herston, QLD, Australia
Noelle M. Cocoros: Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, United States
Michael Klompas: Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, United States
Michael Klompas: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
Bob Zambarano: Commonwealth Informatics Inc., Waltham, MA, United States
Elizabeth Eakin: School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Robyn Littlewood: Health and Wellbeing Queensland, Queensland Government, The State of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Andrew Burton-Jones: UQ Business School, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.854525
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10

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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remain the largest global public health threat. The emerging field of precision public health (PPH) offers a transformative opportunity to capitalize on digital health data to create an agile, responsive and data-driven public health system to actively prevent NCDs. Using learnings from digital health, our aim is to propose a vision toward PPH for NCDs across three horizons of digital health transformation: Horizon 1—digital public health workflows; Horizon 2—population health data and analytics; Horizon 3—precision public health. This perspective provides a high-level strategic roadmap for public health practitioners and policymakers, health system stakeholders and researchers to achieving PPH for NCDs. Two multinational use cases are presented to contextualize our roadmap in pragmatic action: ESP and RiskScape (USA), a mature PPH platform for multiple NCDs, and PopHQ (Australia), a proof-of-concept population health informatics tool to monitor and prevent obesity. Our intent is to provide a strategic foundation to guide new health policy, investment and research in the rapidly emerging but nascent area of PPH to reduce the public health burden of NCDs.

Published in Frontiers in Public Health

ISSN: 2296-2565 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health

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