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About

Meet PHA4GE

We are a group of people passionate about Public Health Genomics.

Organizational Structure​

At the outset, PHA4GE will adopt a simple and lightweight organizational structure to respond to the needs of the public health community.

PHA4GE Steering Committee​

Prof. Alan Christoffels

Chair

Secretariat Members
David Blazes &
Simon Harris

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Co-chairs of working groups

PHA4GE Secretariat

A full time secretariat based at the South African National Bioinformatics, University of the Western Cape will provide administrative support to the PHA4GE working groups and project management as part of our strategic alignment of bioinformatics with public health.

Bioinformatics
Prof. Alan Christoffels

Principal
Investigator

Rangarirai Matima

Communications
Specialist

Bioinformatics
Jamie Southgate

Operations

Nawaal Nacerodien-Weitz

Administrator

Michael Bridger

Business Development 

Scientific Advisory Board

Bioinformatics
Melanie Courtot

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada

Bioinformatics
Benjamin Howden

University of Melbourne,
Australia

Bioinformatics
Stephen Bentley

Wellcome Sanger Institute,
United Kingdom

Bioinformatics
Melanie Newport

Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom

Working Group Chairs

Data Structures

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Dr Emma Griffiths

Chair

University of British Columbia & BC Centre for Disease Control, Canada

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Finlay Maguire

Vice Chair

Dalhousie University, Canada

Infrastructure

Bioinformatics
Peter van Heusden

Chair

South African National Bioinformatics Institute, UWC
South Africa

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Dr Daniel Park

Vice Chair

Broad Institute, USA

Bioinformatics Pipelines and Data Visualization

Emily Smith

Chair

Theiagen, USA

Victoria Dyster

Vice Chair

Mitra Bio, UK

Gültekin Ünal

Vice Chair

Ankara University, Türkiye

Training and Workforce Development

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Dr Duncan MacCannell

Chair

Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, USA

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Prof Nicola Mulder

Vice Chair

University of Cape Town,
South Africa

Ethics and Data Sharing

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Dr Nicki Tiffin

Chair

South African National Bioinformatics Institute, UWC
South Africa

Bioinformatics
Anja Bedeker

Vice Chair

South African National Bioinformatics Institute, UWC
South Africa

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