Stanford Medicine March 26, 2021
In a virtual chat, the School of Medicine’s dean and the chair of epidemiology and population health discussed how the seemingly distinct fields can intersect to boost health equity.
Combining precision health and population health could be a powerful force in the fight for health equity.
That was the takeaway from a March 22 conversation, via online video, between Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, and Melissa Bondy, PhD, professor and chair of epidemiology and population health.
In precision health, physicians harness a patient’s individualized data to maintain health, treat illness or detect early signs of disease. Population health is the study of health risks of particular groups of people. The goal of health...
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