Genomics|Training|Conference|2007 Public Health Genomics Collaboration

Special Meeting

The National Office of Public Health Genomics
presented:

The CDC Public Health Genomics Collaboration Meeting

Thursday, March 29, 2007

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

In 2006, the National Office of Public Health Genomics (NOPHG) started the Public Health Genomics Collaboration (PHGC), a network of CDC professionals working or interested in public health genomics. The goals of this collaboration are to:

provide a forum for the ongoing exchange of ideas and information,
determine points of synergy for improving health impact by using genomics to address CDC goals, and
integrate public health genomics into research, policy, and programs across CDC.

On March 29, 2007, NOPHG hosted its third PHGC meeting on March 29, 2007. Kathleen Toomey, MD, MPH, the new director of the Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CoCHP), started the meeting with welcoming remarks. Muin Khoury, PhD, MD, director of NOPHG, provided an overview of public health genomics at CDC, and Scott Bowen, MPH, deputy director of NOPHG, provided an overview of the public health genomics seed funding projects. This meeting included presentations from three selected public health genomics seed funding projects, followed by a presentation on best practices for protecting human subjects in public health genomics research.

The full meeting agenda can be viewed below. Links to presentation slides will be added to the agenda as they become available.

AGENDA

1:00 – 1:10 p.m.	Welcoming Remarks	Kathleen Toomey, MD, MPH Director, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, CDC
1:10 – 1:20 p.m.	Public Health Genomics 2007 at CDC	Muin Khoury, PhD, MD Director, National Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC View presentation
1:20 – 1:30 p.m.	New Public Health Genomics Training Opportunity and Overview of Seed Funding Projects	Scott Bowen, MPH Deputy Director, National Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC
1:30 – 1:50 p.m.	Maternal Smoking, Polymorphisms of Genes Involved with Metabolism of Tobacco Smoke,& Risk for Gastroschisis and Anorectal Atresia/Stenosis	Margaret Honein, PhD, MPH National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC
1:50 – 2:10 p.m.	Identifying Genetic Determinants of Susceptibility to M. Tuberculosis	Mary Reichler, MD, MPH National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC
2:10 – 2:30 p.m.	Microarray Analyses of MHC Genetic Variations in Diisocyanate-Induced Occupational Asthma	Michael Luster, PhD National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Best practices for protecting human subjects in public health genomics research	Mary Leinhos, PhD National Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC View presentation
2:45- 3:00 p.m.	Closing remarks and discussion