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PHA4GE is pleased to announce a special episode of the PHA4GE Genomic Horizons Webinar Series, hosted jointly with the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN)

About PHA4GE

Rapid global genomic driven public health response to disease outbreaks

The Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) is a global partnership dedicated to advancing the use of genomics and bioinformatics in public health. We champion open, reproducible, and accessible approaches that support stronger surveillance improved outbreak response, and more equitable participation in global public health.

PHA4GE works collaboratively with public health agencies, academic institutions, and international partners to develop shared standards, guidance and best practices that enable genomics to be used effectively across diverse settings.

Why PHA4GE

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.

Recent News Articles

PABS group photo

Professor Alan Christoffels represented South Africa in Geneva during WHO discussions on pathogen data sharing, equitable benefit access and the PABS …

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International pathogen genomics experts joined a PHA4GE and IPSN webinar to share how rapid sequencing and global collaboration helped identify Andes …

PHA4GE’s Keaghan Brown joined wastewater and environmental surveillance experts in Ghana to present bioinformatics capacity-building work and help advance discussions on …

Dylin Pilz collecting WWS award

PHA4GE member Dylan Pilz won best poster presentation at the Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance Meeting 2026 in Ghana for work on …

Working Groups

PHA4GE Working Groups bring together public health agencies, laboratories, researchers and global partners to strengthen genomic epidemiology and support a faster, more coordinated outbreak response. Together, we build practical data standards, share implementation-ready best practices, and develop tools that improve interoperability, reproducibility and real-world adoption across public health settings.

Driver Projects

PHA4GE Projects are collaborative initiatives that put genomic data standards, tools and frameworks into practice to address high-priority pathogens and public health challenges. Each project is developed in close partnership with local, regional and global stakeholders to ensure outputs are context-appropriate, equitable and aligned with international standards.

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