A lot is riding on the White House’s precision medicine initiative, but if it achieves its potential, it could considerably improve population health, argues a JAMA blog post.
While the initiative has been hailed as a “turning point” and has the support of a majority of people, it may fail to move the needle on population health for a few key reasons, write Muin J. Khoury, M.D., Ph.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Sandro Galea, M.D., of Boston University School of Public Health.
