Viewpoint2 on Public Health Genomics for the European

Journal of Public Health. We concluded that ‘public health in the future will be quite different from public health in the past’. Today, 5 years later, have we been right? Where are we now? The highly technology and bioinformatics-driven dynamics of genomics as a ‘moving target ’ from the Human Genome Project (HGP) to the Personal Genome Project (PGP) is currently ‘shaking ’ public health research, policy making and practice in a very fundamental way. Let us be prepared for rethinking our public health interventions, since we face a time when boundaries of disciplines are crossed and the under-standing of diseases is changed as it happened before with the discovery of microscopy and the jump from the macroscopic point of view in anatomy to the microscopic view in cell structure