Making Connections,
discovering Solutions
for healthier lives
What is Precision Health?
Precision Health is a population-based strategy that uses advanced tools and technology to discover how genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors influence a population’s health. Moving beyond the traditional practice of medicine, Precision Health is a research, education, and service initiative that uses big data, computational science, genetics, biology, and social factors to better understand and prevent disease, promote wellness, and develop better treatment options that allow patients to improve their health and wellness.
Of Interest
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Tools and Resources
Explore the Precision Health resources at U-M that can help you take your research to the next level
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Michigan Public Health Receives NIH Grant for Program in Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Genomics
Funding will launch an integrated, interdisciplinary fellowship program
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Mental Health Biostatistics Expert Named Dean of School of Public Health
F. DuBois Bowman, PhD, new dean of Michigan’s School of Public Health, is a biostatistician who supports interdisciplinary collaboration.
Feature Stories
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Unwise opioids for wisdom teeth: Study shows link to long-term use in teens and young adults
Young people ages 13 to 30 who filled an opioid prescription immediately before or after they had their wisdom teeth out were nearly 2.7 times as likely as their peers to still be filling opioid prescriptions weeks or months later, according to new research from a University of Michigan team.
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Big-data study pinpoints more than 150 genes associated with atrial fibrillation
Drawing on genomic data from more than one million individuals, researchers from the University of Michigan have led a large collaborative effort to discover as-yet unknown genetic risk factors for atrial fibrillation…
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Michigan Precision Health 2018 Scholars Awards announced
Precision Health at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Scholars Awards: grants of up to $80,000 each to support precision-health research.
