Family health history – a record of the diseases and health conditions in a family – is an effective and inexpensive method by which healthcare providers can assess an individual’s overall health and risk factors for disease. However, a major effort is needed for gathering, storing, and sharing family health history data in order to implement this practice into clinical care with the ultimate goal of improving global health.
Mission
By better understanding the needs in each individual country, the FHH project aims to promote the benefits of family health history for patient self-knowledge, family sharing, public screening, pre-screening for genetic testing in a clinical setting, and research.
Goals
- Identify methods for obtaining family health history data in a standardized format.
- Develop data storage solutions for easy wide-scale data input and sharing.
- Develop risk assessment algorithms.
- Combine clinical, genomic, and environmental data to create new knowledge for patient care.
Read about the specific steps the FHH group is taking to meet these goals →
Recaps of our most recent projects: →
Vision of the Future
With multiple stakeholders all collecting and storing FHH data separately, the most efficient model would be a shared family-centric record, with access controlled by each family member to support their own needs. View our model of the future which depicts how family health history may potentially be collected, stored, and accessed.
Future Model of Family Health History →
Current subgroups in active development:
FHH & Pharmacogenomics
FHH & Hemoglobinopathy
Through their research and contributions, G2MC Family Health History members are dedicated to advancing the mission of G2MC and the Family Health History subgroup globally.
Co-Leads
Pratiksha Gyawali, MBBS, MD | Faculty Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
Theodora Katsila, PhD | Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
Members
Brehima DIAKITE, MD, PhD in Genetic and Molecular Pathology | Center of Research and Training on Molecular Pathology/Department of Medicine and Odontostomatology, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali | Publications
Ghada El-Kamah, MD, PhD | Department of Clinical Genetics, Human Genetics and Genome Research Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
Evelyn Fang MD, MPH | Family doctor
Community Family and Internal Medicine Clinic, Mercer Island, Washington USA | Website
Mohsen Fathzadeh, PhD | Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine, USA
María Elena Báez Flores | Facultad de Ciencias Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Genómica Microbiana | Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
Elisa Houwink, MD, PhD | Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA | Publications: Houwink ejf – Search Results – PubMed (nih.gov), Houwink-Manville – Search Results – PubMed (nih.gov)
Taobo Hu, MBBS, MD, PhD | Department of Breast Surgery, Peking University People’s Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China | Publications
Cheedy Jaja, PhD, MPH, MSN | College of Nursing, University of South Florida, USA
Saumya Shekhar Jamuar, MBBS, MRCPCH, FAMS, FACMG | Senior Consultant, Genetics Service, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore | Deputy Director (Clinical), SingHealth Duke-NUS institute of Precision Medicine, Singapore | Publications
Baneye Maiga, MD | H3AFRICA/Neurogenetic Research Lab, University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako, Mali
Tinashe Adrian Mazhindu, MBChB, MMed | Department of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine &Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Clinical Trials & Research Centre, African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AiBST)
Lori A. Orlando, MD, MHS, MMCI | Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine, Duke University, USA
Shane Quinonez, MD | The University of Michigan, USA
Meow-Keong Thong, MBBS, MPaeds, MD, FHGSA, FAMM, FASc | Genetics & Metabolism Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Publications
Tomoharu Tokutomi, MD, PhD | Department of Pediatrics, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan | Publications
Evangelia Eirini Tsermpini, PhD | Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Aniefiok John Udoakang, PhD | West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Basic and Applied Science, University of Ghana, Ghana
Thilina Wanigasekera, MBBS, MSc, MPA | Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Sri Lanka
Grant M. Wood | President & CEO, Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (GGMC), Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
