Big Data and Precision Medicine: Leveraging Opportunities

By: Prof. Datuk A Rahman A Jamal
Edited By: Mohd Arman bin Kamaruddin
Published date: 23 March 2021

On 22^nd and 23^rd March 2021, the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and the Malaysian Public University Hospital Consortium (KHUAM) have jointly organized the 3^rd Academic Medical Center National Conference. This year, the theme for the conference was “Health System Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

This video records the fourth plenary session of the conference given by Prof. Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal. In this video, he shares the exciting opportunities that big data could bring to precision medicine. Prof. Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal is the project leader of The Malaysian Cohort (TMC) project. TMC project is a population-based cohort study that investigates the disease interactions between genes and environments.