Program Manager: COL Geoffrey Ling, M.D., Ph.D.
The Predicting Health and Disease (PHD) Program will generate methods to assess whether an individual will develop an infectious disease prior to the onset of symptoms. While current methods diagnose and treat after an individual reports to a physician, the PHD Program seeks to alter this paradigm by identifying changes in the baseline state of human health through frequent surveillance. The vision is to maintain 100-percent warfighter readiness by detecting, intervening, and eliminating disease before the emergence of symptoms.
Achieving this goal will require a multidisciplinary approach to diagnostics that includes, at the minimum, innovative data analytic methodologies coupled with traditional and nontraditional medical diagnostic parameters. DARPA’s end goal is to create the technological breakthroughs required for the development of a field-portable, point-of-care health assessment system that is able to handle large throughput (100 or more analyses), in short time spans (under a 3-hour turnaround), at low costs.
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