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The activities within PHA4GE are aligned to its vision of achieving a rapid global genomic-driven public health response to disease outbreaks. Each of these working groups benefit from collaborative work among its members.
Standardized data structures and interchange formats are critical to the development of an open software ecosystem, and will empower more participants to analyze and govern their own data, regardless of resource status.
Enabling Global Public Health to adapt more readily to changing priorities and emerging threats and to promote innovation, collaboration and development from public/private sector.
Well integrated tools are critical to convey actionable information to a range of stakeholders and decision-makers across multidisciplinary public health teams.
Advancing the use of open data and open source software, empowering more laboratories to analyze and govern their own data regardless of resource status.
PHA4GE is a global coalition that is actively working to establish access to flexible, sustainable bioinformatics capacity. This is a critical need for public health laboratories throughout the world as pathogen sequencing becomes more routine.
We have the vision of fostering the development, innovation and collaboration amongst the global public health bioinformatic workforce by reducing barriers to entry.
PHA4GE kicked off work on malaria genomics data standards at ASTMH 2024 in New Orleans, where Alan Christoffels and Tracey Calvert-Joshua presented a funding proposal on metadata collection.
The Africa CDC hosted its second data-curation workshop in Addis Ababa, building capacity for high-quality pathogen data sharing via the Agari platform. Experts from PHA4GE, SANBI, and NCBI led the training to enhance public health data use.
Rito is a Bioinformatician at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (South Africa), specializing in bacterial pathogen genomics and public health. Passionate about bridging medical microbiology and public health, she explores metagenomic approaches for meningitis pathogen sequencing.
Prof. Alan Christoffels joined the GLOWACON Regional Conference in Addis Ababa, supporting efforts to integrate wastewater monitoring into public health systems worldwide.
With PHA4GE members spread across the globe, in-person meetups are always a valued opportunity. Several members recently gathered at the IPSN Global Partners Forum in Bangkok, Thailand (Nov 21–22, 2024) to connect, collaborate, and advance global pathogen surveillance efforts.
This edition reflects on a year of progress in public health genomics, highlighting tools like AMRColab, groundbreaking data-sharing initiatives, and achievements such as Pathoplexus's recognition in open research.
We're excited to announce episode 12 of the PHA4GE Genomic Horizons webinar series, featuring a talk by Dr. Su Datt Lam from the National University of Malaysia!
We are thrilled to announce a PHA4GE Bioinformatics Pipelines and Visualizations Working Group Webinar, featuring a talk by Kevin Libuit from Theiagen Genomics. Kevin shares the progress made by the working group on "Best Practices for Public Health Bioinformatics Pipelines".
