AUTHOR=Canfell Oliver J. , Davidson Kamila , Woods Leanna , Sullivan Clair , Cocoros Noelle M. , Klompas Michael , Zambarano Bob , Eakin Elizabeth , Littlewood Robyn , Burton-Jones Andrew 

TITLE=Precision Public Health for Non-communicable Diseases: An Emerging Strategic Roadmap and Multinational Use Cases

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.854525

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.854525

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) remain the largest global public health threat. The emerging field of precision public health (PPH) offers a transformative opportunity to capitalize on diverse health data to create an agile, responsive and data-driven public health system to actively prevent NCDs. Using learnings from digital health, our aim is to propose a vision towards PPH for NCDs across three horizons of digital health transformation: Horizon 1 – digital public health workflows; Horizon 2 – population health data and analytics; Horizon 3 – precision public health. This perspective provides a high-level strategic roadmap for public health practitioners and policymakers, health system stakeholders and researchers to achieving PPH for NCDs. Two international use cases are presented to contextualise our roadmap in pragmatic action: ESP and RiskScape (USA), a mature PPH platform for multiple NCDs, and PopHQ (Australia), a proof-of-concept population health informatics tool to monitor and prevent obesity. Our intent is to provide a strategic foundation to guide new health policy, investment and research in the rapidly emerging but nascent area of PPH to reduce the public health burden of NCDs.