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NIH and GA4GH commit to ongoing collaboration
14 Feb 2024
The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have announced a strategic collaboration in the form of a Memorandum of Agreement. This partnership aims to bolster the development of technology standards, tools, and policy frameworks to support responsible sharing of genomic and related health data on a global scale.
“To fully realise the promise of genomic medicine, organisations worldwide must continue to commit to the equitable expansion of responsible genomic data use. Working together with GA4GH to build technical standards and policy tools can help accelerate collaborative biomedical research, a key NIH aim.”
– Dr. Eric Green, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at NIH
Latest announcements
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores individual attitudes toward medical and genetic data sharing in Latin America and the development of two new indexes
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new GA4GH products: Experiments Metadata Checklist and Whole Genome Sequencing Quality Control Standards