The Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, has led the development and implementation of
new infection control policies to reduce the risk of transmission, now adopted across the UK and elsewhere.
Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing
new or assessing existing public health
policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for
infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation
policies or public health
control programs be implemented to halt the spread of
infections?