Genomics and individuals in public health practice: are we luddites or can we meet the challenge?

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This paper is directed at my public health colleagues. It is written explicitly to challenge existing ethos and practice. It is deliberately provocative. Its message is that public health will need to amend its practice over the coming decades to take into account two important drivers to which it has so far paid little attention. The first driver is genomic science. Knowledge derived from it has enabled us to...

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