About us
Learn how GA4GH helps expand responsible genomic data use to benefit human health.
Leadership
GA4GH is a collaborative, global alliance led by executive leadership and the Standards Steering Committee. We receive guidance from our Funders Forum and operational support from our staff. Apply for open leadership opportunities.
Executive team
GA4GH is overseen by an Executive Committee — drawn from the management committee of the GA4GH Inc. Board — that chairs the Standards Steering Committee. Leaders from GA4GH staff round out the executive team.
Peter Goodhand
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)Chief Executive Officer
President, GA4GH Inc.
Kathryn North
Murdoch Children's Research Institute | Australian GenomicsVice-Chair
Driver Project Champion, Australian Genomics
Heidi Rehm
Massachusetts General Hospital | Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardVice-Chair
Driver Project Champion, ClinGen
Angela Page
Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardDirector of Strategy and Engagement
Secretary, GA4GH Inc.
Standards Steering Committee
The Standards Steering Committee (SSC) consists of Work Stream Leads, Driver Project Champions, and Strategic Partner Champions. All leaders in their fields, SSC members reflect the diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and geography of the GA4GH community.
Michael Baudis
University of ZurichWork Stream Lead, Discovery Champion, Beacon driver project Champion SPHN driver project Past co-lead GKS-VRS
Ravi Bhargava
Guillaume Bourque
McGill University / Université McGillDriver Project Champion, EpiShare
Driver Project Champion, CanDIG
Anthony Brookes
University of LeicesterDriver Project Champion, European Joint Programme on Rare Disease
Amy Brower
Tony Burdett
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)Driver Project Champion, Human Cell Atlas
Mélanie Courtot
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)Work Stream Lead, Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture
Product Lead, Data Use Ontology (DUO)
Katrin Crameri
SIB Swiss Institute of BioinformaticsDriver Project Champion, Swiss Personalized Health Network
Karen Cranston
University Health Network | Canadian Distributed Infrastructure for Genomics (CanDIG)Driver Project Champion, CanDIG
Magnus Fontes
Ian Fore
GA4GH Implementation Forum Lead
Mallory Freeberg
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)Driver Project Champion, ENA/EVA/EGA
Jessica Giordano
Obi Griffith
The Genome Institute at Washington UniversityDriver Project Champion, The Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)
Robert Grossman
University of ChicagoDriver Project Champion, NCI Genomic Data Commons
Driver Project Champion, NCI Cancer Research Data Commons
Jaime Guidry Auvil
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)Work Stream Lead, Data Use and Researcher Identities
Melissa Haendel
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusDriver Project Champion, Monarch Initiative
Oliver Hofmann
University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer ResearchWork Stream Lead, Large Scale Genomics
Masato Kasuga
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)Driver Project Champion, GEnome Medical Alliance Japan (GEM Japan)
Giselle Kerry
Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR
Melissa Konopko
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Group Lead
Martin Kuba
Masaryk University | ELIXIR Cloud and AAIDriver Project Champion, ELIXIR Cloud & AAI for Human Data
Product Lead, Passports
Mogomotsi Matshaba
Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of ExcellenceDriver Project Champion, H3Africa
Nicola Mulder
University of Cape TownDriver Project Champion, Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)
Monica Munoz-Torres
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusDriver Project Champion, Monarch Initiative
Sabine Oesterle
SIB Swiss Institute of BioinformaticsDriver Project Champion, Swiss Personalized Health Network
Peter Robinson
The Jackson LaboratoryDriver Project Champion, Monarch Initiative
Product Lead, Phenopackets
Serena Scollen
Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Hub
Albert Smith
University of MichiganDriver Project Champion, Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed)
Lincoln Stein
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) | ICGC ARGODriver Project Champion, ICGC-ARGO
Jonathan Tedds
Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Cloud and AAI for Human Data
Alastair Thomson
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Driver Project Champion, TOPMed
Timothy Tickle
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Human Cell AtlasDriver Project Champion, Human Cell Atlas
Geraldine Van der Auwera
Work Stream Lead, Large Scale Genomics
Alex Wagner
The Ohio State University College of Medicine | Nationwide Children’s Hospital- Driver Project Champion, The Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)
Ronald Wapner
Andy Yates
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)maintainer (refget), contributor (vrs, va, service info, service registry, EDI), leadership (vrs, va, sequence annotation, refget), BED (prc)
Emeritus
The following individuals previously served on the GA4GH leadership:
David Altshuler; Dixie Baker; Francis Collins; Susan Desmond-Hellmann; Richard Durbin; Jeremy Farrar; David Haussler; Jean-Pierre Hubaux; Thomas Hudson; Eric Lander; Charles Sawyers; Michael Stratton; Harold Varmus.
See also
Funders Forum
The GA4GH Funder’s Forum consists of GA4GH Host Institutions, Core Funders, Supporting Funders, and Assigned Expert Funders.
GA4GH Inc. Board of Directors
GA4GH Inc., the Canadian not-for-profit organization associated with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, is governed by a Board of Directors, whose management committee mirrors the executive committee of the Standards Steering Committee.