PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2 Sub-Award Success Story: Team Malawi

PHA4GE chats to Dr. Kamng’ona from College of Medicine, University of Malawi on their SARS-CoV-2 Sub-Award.
PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2 Sub-Award Success Story: Team Nigeria

PHA4GE chats to Dr Olawoye and Dr Oluniyi from Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University on their SARS-CoV-2 Sub-Award.
Responding to community needs: The Data Structures Working Group is updating its tools for AMR and SARS-CoV-2

The ability to compare how SARS-CoV-2 lineages are evolving around the world in different contexts depends on harmonizable contextual data across labs and datasets.
Publication of PHA4GE’s SARS-CoV-2 Contextual Data Specification Package

PHA4GE’s SARS-CoV-2 contextual data specification package has been released in GigaScience Journal. The paper was authored by members of the Data Structures Working Group.
Publication of Ethical Benefit Sharing in Health Research Paper

PHA4GE’s Ethics and Data Sharing Working Group have published a paper providing a framework for the promotion of ethical benefit sharing in health research.
Omicron (B.1.1.529; 21K) Variant Resources

The PHA4GE Pipelines and Visualization Working Group has created a guidance document to highlight critical open-source/accesses resources to aid in the understanding and further analysis of the Omicron variant. Special thanks to everyone who contributed in the creation of the document and discussions.
Standardization, not perspiration: #TeamDataStructures partners with organizations around the world to implement data standards to build interoperability

Data Structures Working Group update for November 2021
Bioinformatics Pipelines and Visualization Working Group – Nov 2021 Update

The Bioinformatics Pipelines and Data Visualization Working Group has continued to host bi-monthly meetings to discuss critical challenges in the field of public health bioinformatics.
Community Profile – Dr. Rosaline Macharia

In this quarter’s edition of the PHA4GE newsletter, we shine a spotlight on Dr. Rosaline Macharia from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
PHA4GE Ethics and Data Sharing Sub-Awards

Various applications were received for the call for small grants to fund ethics and data sharing projects