At PHG we have been co-leading one of the work packages of the EU-funded PROPHET project which has the overarching goal of providing concrete evidence and recommendations to decision-makers regarding ...

Large numbers of human infectious diseases have a zoonotic origin, meaning that many disease-causing pathogens were originally transmitted from non-human animals to humans. This process can have ...

The WYNG-Hatton lecture and conference, 17-18 April 2024 You can watch the video of the WYNG-Hatton lecture, which took place ahead of the conference, here, on the website of the Centre for Medical ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a serious global health problem contributing to morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and other agents in all countries ...

PHG Foundation has more than 20 years’ experience in the life science and healthcare sectors. We can help you develop a deeper understanding of this environment, the opportunities and challenges it ...

Beginning in January 2004 , this programme brought together a Steering Group of professionals from a wide sphere with a particular interest in learning disability. The Steering Group included experts ...

Our experienced staff, trustees and associates bring their specialist knowledge from a wide range of backgrounds to create interdisciplinary policy solutions to the practical challenges of translating ...

Advances in clinical genomics have been enabled by short-read sequencing (SRS) technologies, where the DNA is broken into pieces up to 300 base pairs long. While these technologies have many ...

Synthetic data—artificial data that closely mimic the properties and relationships of real data—are not a new concept but technological advances have led to great optimism about their potential for ...

Genome editing has featured frequently in the headlines and is a technology with the potential to revolutionise healthcare. Although a number of genome editing techniques are well established in ...

Speaker: Eric M. Meslin, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, ICD.D. The proposed uses of AI in the health sector have elicited reactions from hope to handwringing to hype. In response, governments, NGOs, professional ...

Our policy briefings and explainers are part of our horizon-scanning programme to identify those novel technologies showing greatest promise for health research and care. Succinct and accessible, they ...