With research partners within the Amsterdam academic alliance, we will systematically develop, implement, and evaluate guidelines and interventions that build on and effectively respond to biological and social axes of diversity, including genetic factors and intersectionality. We will study risk profiling, classifying and stratifying patients and other clients, to predict benefit or harm from diagnostics and interventions (including pharmacogenomics and population screening programs). We will study diversity in (future) healthcare clients, at different levels (personal, interpersonal, institutional, and societal) and in different settings, and analyze the relevance for health, prevention, and healthcare. Research themes Mapping Diversity in Healthcare Needs In the future we can fine-tune the healthcare system, especially in primary care and public health, offering stratified approaches wherever possible, and personalizing where needed, while normative (ethical and legal) aspects will be addressed. Personal genomes, information on subtypes of diseases, and individual characteristics and preferences can guide stratification and personalization in healthcare.

With the combination of ongoing (bio-)technological developments and the perceived need for person-centered decision-making, medicine has now arrived in an era where more customization is both needed and possible. The Personalized Medicine research program aims to increase attention to the cultural, ethnic, socio-economic, gender, genetic and psychological diversity in the population and to people’s social identities. In the Personalized Medicine research program (PM) the healthcare responsiveness to the cultural, ethnic, socio-economic, and psychological, metabolic and genomic diversity in the population is studied to optimize prevention and treatment, including reduction of side-effects, by ‘tailoring’ to the diversity in individual characteristics.Ĭontact: We aim to increase attention to the cultural, ethnic, socio-economic, gender, genetic and psychological diversity in the population Mission and goals

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