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 22nd and 23rd 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 3rd 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.