Centre for Global Health Policy

Panel 1. Closing the Gap in Health Inequalities – is Genomics Part of the Solution?

Panel Organisers:

Melanie Newport, Director, Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research

Michael Hopkins, Senior Lecturer, SPRU (the Science Policy Research Unit), University of Sussex

 

Panel Chair:

Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies

 

Speakers:


Audrey Duncanson, Senior Portfolio Developer, The Wellcome Trust, ‘H3Africa: levelling the genomics playing field?’

Video unplublished.

 

Michael Hopkins, Senior Lecturer, SPRU (the Science Policy Research Unit), ‘Is the ‘genomics revolution’ really is having a revolutionary impact on healthcare, even in HICs?’

 

Stuart Hogarth, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Kings College London, ‘Prospects for molecular based diagnositics in LIC’