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3 Mar 2026
New GA4GH product establishes guidance to address genetic discrimination
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3 Mar 2026
New GA4GH product helps gNBS implementers navigate ethical, legal, and social issues
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Compass central stone by the Maori in New Zealand
News
29 Jan 2026
GA4GH standards implementation in the Rakeiora Genomics Platform supports data security and sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Events

Photograph of Singapore
28 Sep 2026
14th Plenary
Plenary
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Photograph of the Montreal city scape
14 Apr 2026
April Connect 2026
Connect
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Picture of Uppsala, Sweden.
6 Oct 2025
13th Plenary
Plenary
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Videos

19 Nov 2025
GKS Work Stream Open House (November 2025)
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6 Jan 2025
GKS Work Stream Open House (January 2025)
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2 Feb 2024
GA4GH Fireside Chat with Heidi Rehm and Geoff Ginsburg
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Podcasts

28 Feb 2024
OmicsXchange Season 2, Episode 1: Together for CHANGE: sequencing the African American genome with Lyndon Mitnaul and James Hildreth Sr.
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10 Jun 2022
OmicsXchange episode 17: exploring the Variation Representation Specification with Larry Babb and Alex Wagner
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27 May 2022
OmicsXchange episode 16: Atlas Variant Effects Alliance and interpreting human genetic variation — an interview with Clare Turnbull and Lea Starita
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Announcements

3 Mar 2026
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream products
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29 Jan 2026
New GA4GH implementation story: Rakeiora Genomics Platform in New Zealand
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9 Dec 2025
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post discusses how older research participants are motivated to receive genetic results for the benefit of younger relatives
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Publications

2026
Navigating ethical, legal and social implications in genomic newborn screening
Nature Reviews Genetics
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2025
Towards a standard benchmark for phenotype-driven variant and gene prioritisation algorithms: PhEval - Phenotypic inference Evaluation framework
BMC Bioinformatics
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2025
The International Health Cohorts Consortium (IHCC) advances population health research and genomic discovery
Communications Medicine
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Newsletters

22 Apr 2025
Genomics and Health news for 15 to 22 April 2025
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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15 Apr 2025
Genomics and Health news for 8 to 15 April 2025
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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8 Apr 2025
Genomics and Health news for 25 March to 8 April 2025
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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