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Open. Consensus. Practice. Tools.

Improving openness and interoperability in Public Health Bioinformatics

a global coalition.

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Working Groups

The activities within PHA4GE are aligned to its vision of achieving a rapid global genomic-driven public health response to disease outbreaks. Each of these working groups benefit from collaborative work among its members.

Why PHA4GE

Standardized data structures and interchange formats are critical to the development of an open software ecosystem, and will empower more participants to analyze and govern their own data, regardless of resource status.

Enabling Global Public Health to adapt more readily to changing priorities and emerging threats and to promote innovation, collaboration and development from public/private sector.

Well integrated tools are critical to convey actionable information to a range of stakeholders and decision-makers across multidisciplinary public health teams.

Advancing the use of open data and open source software, empowering more laboratories to analyze and govern their own data regardless of resource status.

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About PHA4GE

Rapid global genomic driven public health response to disease outbreaks

PHA4GE is a global coalition that is actively working to establish access to flexible, sustainable bioinformatics capacity. This is a critical need for public health laboratories throughout the world as pathogen sequencing becomes more routine.

We have the vision of fostering the development, innovation and collaboration amongst the global public health bioinformatic workforce by reducing barriers to entry.

Funders & Affiliations

World TB Day is observed on March 24 each year to raise public awareness and understanding about one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers

In collaboration with 17 public health laboratories across 10 countries, the PHA4GE Data Structures working group has developed and piloted a standardized output specification for the bioinformatic detection of AMR from microbial genomes.

Two positions are available to support the PHA4GE Wastewater Surveillance Project

We are thrilled to announce a PHA4GE Bioinformatics Pipelines and Visualizations Working Group Webinar, featuring a talk by Kevin Libuit from Theiagen Genomics. Kevin shares the progress made by the working group  on "Best Practices for Public Health Bioinformatics Pipelines".

PHA4GE lance un appel à propositions pour dix sous-subventions afin de soutenir les travaux en bio-informatique et la surveillance environnementale des eaux usées (WES) des agents pathogènes dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire (PRFI) d’Afrique, d’Asie du Sud et d’Amérique latine.

Funding is available for for proposals) to assist work in bioinformatics and wastewater environmental surveillance (WES) of pathogens within low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.

PHA4GE's Global Genomics webinar series offers insights into the latest research topics and community developments followed by a Q-A session.

We are thrilled to announce a PHA4GE Bioinformatics Pipelines and Visualizations Working Group Webinar, featuring a talk by Kevin Libuit from Theiagen Genomics. Kevin shares the progress made by the working group  on "Best Practices for Public Health Bioinformatics Pipelines".

In this episode, Assistant Professor Ruklanthi de Alwis from Duke-NUS Medical School Centre for Outbreak Preparedness shares her expertise on Pathogen genomic surveillance in Asia.

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