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Working Group

Infrastructure

Increasingly, public health requires access to reliable, flexible high-performance computing resources, either on-premise, in the cloud or both.

Focus Areas

Cloud

Networking

On-premise HPC

Field-portable systems

Implementation, sustainability and support

Monitoring, access control and security considerations

Workforce requirements

Procurement strategy

Overview

Inception: April 2020

# of Members: 20+

Chair: Peter van Heusden
South African National Bioinformatics Institute
UWC, South Africa

Vice-Chair: Daniel Park
Broad Institute, USA

Contact: [email protected]

Working Group Description

This working group will build upon emerging best practices to establish consensus architectures for public health applications, including recommendations and reference implementations.

Abebe Aseffa Negeri

Ethiopian Public Health Institute

Ahmad Zyoud

EMBL-EBI

Anthony Underwood

Sanger

Belhadj Wahbi

Institut Pasteur de Tunis

Bin Hu

LANL

Cebile Lekhuleni

National Institute for Communicable Diseases

Daniel Park

Broad Institute

David Jones

US CDC

David Yuan

EMBL-EBI

Dhwani Batra

US CDC

Duncan MacCannell

US CDC

Edward Lukyamuzi

Uganda Virus Research Institute

Emma Doughty

Theiagen Genomics

George Githinji

KEMRI

Ghedira Kais

Institut Pasteur de Tunis

James Otieno

Theiagen Genomics

Joel Sevinsky

Theiagen Genomics

Joseph Russell

MRI Global

Karin Lagesen

Norwegian Veterinary Institute

Kelsey Florek

Wisconsin Division of Public Health

Kim Ng

Statens Serum Institute

Nabil-Fareed Alikhan

Quadrum Institute

Nidhal Ghanmi

Institut Pasteur de Tunis

Peter van Heusden

SANBI

Sheila Atogiba

Public Health Institute

Simon Harris

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Soyean Kim

Providence Health care

Suresh Maloney

University of Cape Town

Thanh Le-Viet

Quadram Institute Bioscience

Thomas Connor

Cardiff University

Tim Dallman

World Health Organization - International Pathogen

William Hsiao

BC CDC

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