New tools & research strategies in personalized health

Summary

We will define the concept of personalized health, describe the underlying technologies, the technological, legal and ethical challenges that the field faces today, and how they are being met.

Content

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Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

None

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Distinguish the tenents of personalized health
• Discuss new technologies within the context of personalized health

Transversal skills

• Write a scientific or technical report.
• Make an oral presentation.
• Take feedback (critique) and respond in an appropriate manner.
• Assess progress against the plan, and adapt the plan as appropriate.
• Collect data.
• Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
• Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
• Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lectures, discussions, coaching, preparation of a project, oral defense of the project.

Expected student activities

Attend all the lectures

Preparation of project

Oral defense of project

Active participation to discussions

Work in small groups

Assessment methods

Written: A mid-term individual assessment based on the lectures.

Oral: Presentation of a project: quality of slides, clarity and content of presentation, ability to answer questions.

Project: Relevance to personalized health, explanation of relevant background, explanation of research strategy. Multidisciplinary approach.

Supervision

Office hours	No
Assistants	Yes
Others	Coach and contact persons for project

Resources

Bibliography

No prerequisite

Notes/Handbook

When possible, copies of the slides will be provided

Websites

• https://health2030.ch/

Moodle Link

• https://go.epfl.ch/BIO-491