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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.
Ghislaine van Vlijmen reflects on her three-month voluntary internship with PHA4GE, where she contributed to organizational sustainability and assisted in multiple portfolios. Her experience highlights the power of partnerships in advancing bioinformatics solutions for public health.
Arthur Shem Kasambula and Dr. Emma Hodcroft have joined PHA4GE’s Data Repositories Working Group as co-chairs, aiming to advance tools and databases like Pathoplexus for improved pathogen data sharing. Their efforts will drive consensus-driven solutions and technical recommendations to enhance usability and integration across global data systems.
We are announcing Pathoplexus, a specialised genomic database for viruses of public health importance. By combining modern open-source software with transparent governance structures, Pathoplexus fills a niche within the existing genomic sequencing database landscape, aiming to meet requests from both data submitters and users and striving to improve equity.
In April and June 2024, we invited all PHA4GE members to participate in a survey to ensure PHA4GE is providing opportunities that align with your passions and expertise. The results have been compiled into a short report.