In a letter to ASA President David Morganstein, NIH Deputy Director of Science, Outreach, and Policy Kathy Hudson encouraged the statistical community to participate in their events to gather information from the community to inform their work to produce a report articulating a vision for building the Precision Medicine Initiative research cohort.
Hudson's letter to Morganstein was in reply to Morganstein's April 29 letter to the NIH director on importance and benefits of engaging statisticians on Precision Medicine Initiative. Hudson co-chairs the NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group, set up to guide NIH's efforts on the President'sPrecision Medicine Initiative.
The events are posted at http://www.nih.gov/precisionmedicine/events.htm, the next ones being May 28-29:
- Digital Health Data in a Million-Person Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort
Thursday, May 28 – Friday, May 29, 2015
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. (and videocast)
- Public workshop on participants and community engagement
Wednesday, July 1 – Thursday, July 2, 2015, Time to be Determined
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. (and videocast)
- Public workshop on mHealth
Monday, July 27 – Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. (and videocast)
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