National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Report on Public Responses

Public Health Applications of Genetic Research in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders

September 2002

Summary

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute issued a Request for Information on Public Health Applications of Genetic Research in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders (NOT-HL-02-015), to obtain advice on approaches to applying results of genetic research in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders to improving human health and preventing disease.

Specifically requested was identification of:

• specific short- and long-term public health goals of genetic research and approaches for reaching them;
  
• specific public-health related applications of results currently available or likely to be ready in the next 5-10 years, steps necessary to make them ready, and approaches for applying them; and,
  
• necessary infrastructure (expertise, equipment, resources, centers) and common approaches that might be utilized for developing these public health applications.

Respondents were asked to comment on one or more of 9 issues related to public health applications, and their responses were collected and summarized for application to programmatic development and administration within the Institute. This report is a compilation of the responses.

The complete report is available as a bookmarked PDF file (251 K, 70 pages).

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