The power of big data to find answers
To achieve these ambitious goals, A/Prof Ingles aims to build and utilise large patient cohorts that pose diverse genetic data that will help us explore inherited heart disease more comprehensively than ever before.
Big data has the potential to power unparalleled advancements in human health, but this progress will be limited by the quality, magnitude and diversity of the genomic data available to researchers and clinicians. A/Prof Ingles’ work is groundbreaking in so many ways, not least because of her focus on closing the equity gap and including diverse and too-often overlooked parts of our population.
A/Prof Ingles’ first mission is to widen her pool of data by recruiting families with inherited heart disease beyond our current recruitment methods. This means reaching out to the broader population and forming partnerships that encourage awareness in harder-to-reach parts of our community, such as remote and regional areas, and families from non-English speaking backgrounds.