Muin Khoury

Dr. Muin Khoury is the founding director of the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics. The Office was formed in 1997 to assess the impact of advances in human genetics and the Human Genome Project on public health and disease prevention. CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics serves as the national focus for integrating genomics into public health research and programs for disease prevention and health promotion. Dr. Khoury has developed a number of successful ongoing national and international initiatives to translate advances in genomics and related technologies to recommendations and actions that improve health and prevent disease throughout the life stages. Since 2007, he has also served the National Cancer Institute as senior advisor in public health genomics in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. Since 2011, he leads the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program in the same Division.