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Meet the PHA4GE team

An awesome team working together to improve public health genomics

PHA4GE Steering Committee​

Prof. Alan Christoffels

Chair

Secretariat Members
David Blazes &
Simon Harris

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Co-chairs of working groups

PHA4GE Secretariat

A full time secretariat based at the South African National Bioinformatics, University of the Western Cape will provide administrative support to the PHA4GE working groups and project management as part of our strategic alignment of bioinformatics with public health.

Alan Christoffels

SANBI

Gabrielle Arendse

PHA4GE

Jamie Southgate

PHA4GE

Michael Bridger

PHA4GE

Nawaal Weitz

PHA4GE

Rangarirai Matima

PHA4GE

Tracey Calvert-Joshua

SANBI

Zenande Mgijima

PHA4GE

Scientific Advisory Board

Benjamin Howden

University of Melbourne

Melanie Courtot

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Stephen Bentley

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Melanie Newport

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Working Group Chairs​

Anja Bedeker

SANBI

Daniel Park

Broad Institute

Duncan MacCannell

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Emily Smith

Theiagen Genomics

Emma Griffiths

University of British Columbia & BC Centre for Disease Control

Finlay Maguire

Dalhousie University

Gültekin Ünal

Ankara University

Nicki Tiffin

SANBI

Nicola Mulder

University of Cape Town

Peter van Heusden

SANBI

Victoria Dyster

Mitra Bio

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