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GA4GH welcomes new leadership

21 Aug 2025

GA4GH is pleased to announce the appointment of several community members into new leadership roles to advance the organisation’s mission of enabling broad and responsible genomic and health data sharing. 

Please join us in welcoming:

  • GA4GH Implementation Forum Co-Leads — Brian O’Connor (Nimbus Informatics, LLC) and Wafaa M. Rashed (PAPERI [Pan-African PGS Education and Research Initiative])
  • Discovery Work Stream Co-Leads — David Bujold (Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics) and Miro Cupak (DNAStack)
  • Infectious Disease Community of Interest Co-Leads — Charlotte (Charlie) Barclay (Simon Fraser University), Samantha Chill (Deloitte), and Nishan Katuwal (Dhulikhel Hospital Kathmandu University Hospital, Nepal; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Learn more in the press release here.

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