Forum for Personal Health
The Forum for Personal Health was launched in 2009 by Michael Birt, then a Senior Vice President at The National Bureau of Asian Research, to bring together top leaders from the US and international health systems to address key health challenges. In particular, the Forum was designed to focus on innovative efforts that supported the prevention, early detection and treatment of disease.
The inaugural meeting of the Forum for Personal Health was held on June 18 at the conclusion of the 2009 Pacific Health Summit. The central focus of this meeting was personalized medicine and emerging efforts to develop an international network of healthcare providers and industry leaders committed to improving healthcare and reducing costs through a systematic process of discovery, validation, and application of molecular diagnostics.
The inaugural Forum highlighted the efforts of the Partnership for Personalized Medicine (PPM), which is composed of three organizations—the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute. PPM is a nonprofit initiative whose goal is to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
2009 Forum Challenge.