Message from Chair Initiator

Appropriate nutritional intervention is essential for growth, development and resilience, preventing diseases and their impacts. Ingested nutrients transit through metabolic pathways influenced by genetics, epigenetics, the microbiome and environmental factors, contributing to heterogeneity in individual needs and responses.

These factors also underlie differences in disease susceptibility and response to therapy. Thus, they have the potential to inform recommendations for different segments of populations in precision health approaches. Precision health combined with spatially resolved data could help the target populations of interventions where resources are limited.

Integration of big data related to genetic, epigenetic, microbiome, lifestyle, and environmental factors is required to expand our understanding of the diversity of human metabolism in response to diet. Based on the need of individuals, agriculture policy could focus on the production of the required foods, and the food industry could provide the necessary food supply. Nutraceuticals and functional foods could play a critical role for the population.

Precision health encompasses utilizing a group or an individual's characteristics to optimize interventions. It is rapidly gaining traction, largely because of new 'omics' tools and consequent insights into the roles of the intestinal microbiome in metabolic and hormonal processes, and their association with diet.

This initiated International Society for Precision Health is based on the global impact to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within the life-related sciences through international activities. We are very pleased to have all international initiators around the world to establish this global society under the support of the United Nations. This society could be the platform to provide available support and real assistance to the request of world health.

Dr. Prof. Chin-Kun Wang
Chair Initiator of International Society for Precision Health
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador