The Future of Healing: Precision Medicine in Public Health

Disease is not one-size-fits-all, as anyone who has had the common cold can attest. Bodies, environments, and lived experiences are all as different and unique as an individual – what works for one person may not work for another. For government agencies whose mission is public health, precision medicine’s ability to integrate the disparate data points for healing is increasingly becoming the future.

Government health agencies operate on the forefront of the nation’s healthcare, a landscape of complex and evolving needs that cover a vast range of people, places, and problems. The challenges they face are as broad as a global pandemic and as narrow as the molecular footprint of one type of cancer. Precision medicine is reshaping how agencies conceptualize these challenges.