P2P in public health: From particles to populations

Despite numerous changes introduced by the new technologies, the role and the meaning of public health within health has remained stable and important. Public health is also expanding from the strictly population-focus to genetics and nano-technology. This means that the fundaments of public health need to be supplemented by the additional expertise in areas such as medical informatics, bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology and public health genomics. The first step in integration is to develop the means of joining these ideas and experts in the solving of multidisciplinary problems, aiming to supplement public health with the emerging new technologies, ideas and concepts.