Introducing PHA4GE Proposed Standards: Guiding Public Health Bioinformatics Software
Explore PHA4GE’s proposed software development standards for public health bioinformatics. Enhance software quality, reliability, and sustainability, empowering impactful public health research .
Call for Community Input: Exciting Updates from the Data Structures Working Group!
Projects include a call for community input on Wastewater Contextual Data Specification and the development of a Data Standards Registry.
Pandemic Preparedness: Panel Discussion
During a thought-provoking session at the recent ABPHM conference organised and funded by Wellcome Connecting Science, several esteemed researchers, led by Jen Jennifer Gardy from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, shared their perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic.
ABPHM 23 Poster Flash Talks
Among the many highlights at ABPHM, the poster flash talk session emerged as a particularly enjoyable and fun-filled experience.
Public health genomics in Argentina: a new paradigm
In the realm of public health genomics, Argentina has made significant strides in recent years, thanks to the efforts led by Josefina Campos and her team at ANLIS–Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán.
Building Better Public Health Datasets: The Collaborative Development of PHA4GE QC Contextual Data Tags
PHA4GE’s Data Structures Working Group, led by Dr Emma Griffiths, has been working on a paper focusing on the challenges of low quality public health sequence datasets
Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology Conference
The Conference will run from the 3rd – 5th of May 2023, hosted at the Wellcome Genome Campus, United Kingdom.
World TB Day 2023
World TB Day commemorates the discovery by Dr Robert Koch – in 1882 – that he had found the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), which laid the groundwork for its detection and eventual treatment.
Supporting inclusive & Equitable Ethics Training: A report from the PHA4GE Ethics & Data Sharing Sub-Grant Workshop
In November 2022, Mauritius played host to a 4 day PHA4GE workshop (14 – 17 November) which focused on ethical data sharing practices and inclusive, equitable health research.
Africa CDC support for Bioinformatics Training at UWC
The Africa CDC conducts these trainings for better disease control and prevention in Africa by integrating pathogen genomes and bioinformatics into public health surveillance and outbreak investigations. This also creates a networking platform and collaboration among Member states and to maintain a support system for public health emergencies in the present and future.