Genetics, Health Care and Public Policy: An Introduction to Public Health Genetics

Genetics, Health Care and Public Policy is an introduction to the new discipline of public health genetics. It brings together the insights of genetic and molecular science as a means of protecting and improving the health of the population. This book sets out the basic principles of public health genetics for a wide audience of readers from those providing health care to those involved in establishing health policy. It provides one-stop introductory coverage of this rapidly developing and multidisciplinary field.

Alison Stewart is Head of Policy and Knowledge Management at the Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge Philippa Brice is Science Policy and Dissemination Manager at the Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge Hilary Burton is Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge Paul Pharoah is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge Simon Sanderson is Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care Genetics at the Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge Ron Zimmern is Director of the Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge