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Precision Health Research Singapore (PRECISE) is named the first GA4GH Regional Hub Institution				29 September 2026
New GA4GH Policy Brief discusses the EDPB Guidelines 1/2026 about what “scientific research purposes” are in the context of personal data processing		Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)		1 September 2026
New Product in Action: Greater Bay Area Bioinformatics Center leverages GA4GH standards to navigate data sovereignty and advance genomic research in China	Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream)	Data Repository Service (DRS), Tool Registry Service (TRS), Workflow Execution Service (WES), Task Execution Service (TES), Passports		4 August 2026
New GA4GH Product in Action: Individual-Centric Genomics Platform JPN	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Variant Annotation (VA)	GA4GH Products in Action	21 July 2026
Genomics England has become a Core Funder of GA4GH.			Funders Forum	9 July 2026
The GA4GH Analytics Dashboard translates a decade of open science into data				4 June 2026
The GA4GH Product Development and Approval Process is now open for comment				28 May 2026
GA4GH and INMEGEN agree to a Strategic Partnership to expand the use of genomic data standards in Latin America				21 May 2026
GA4GH publishes its 2025 Annual Report			GA4GH Annual Report	10 April 2026
Introducing GA4GH’s new AI Work Stream			Work Streams	7 April 2026
Open leadership opportunity: GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) Co-Lead			GA4GH Implementation Forum	17 March 2026
GA4GH 14th Plenary registration is now open! Join us in Singapore from 28 September to 2 October.			Events	12 March 2026
Join the next GIF “Ask Me Anything" event featuring Crypt4GH on 31 March!	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	Genetic Data Encryption (Crypt4GH)	GIF "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) programmes, History	6 March 2026
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream products	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Genomic sequencing in newborn screening, Position Statement on Genetic Discrimination, Genetic Discrimination Toolkit	News, Our products	3 March 2026
New GA4GH implementation story: Rakeiora Genomics Platform in New Zealand		htsget, Passports, Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI), Framework for responsible sharing of genomic and health-related data		29 January 2026
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post discusses how older research participants are motivated to receive genetic results for the benefit of younger relatives	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts	Public Attitudes for Genomics and Policy Blog	9 December 2025
Introducing new GA4GH Community of Interest leadership!			Neuroscience Community, Rare Disease Community	4 December 2025
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores individual attitudes toward medical and genetic data sharing in Latin America and the development of two new indexes	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts		20 November 2025
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	Discovery Work Stream, Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	Experiments Metadata Checklist (Expmeta), Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Quality Control (QC) Standards	Our products	13 November 2025
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores the role of the ‘commercialisation effect’ in shaping Australians’ attitudes towards a hypothetical national genomic repository	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts		30 October 2025
Join the next "Ask Me Anything" session featuring GA4GH Passports	Data Security Work Stream, Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream	Passports, Data Passports		30 September 2025
GA4GH GIF Spotlight is now open for public comment				23 September 2025
New GA4GH Guest Blog Post: Borderless data, boundless hurdles: navigating the challenges of international federated sharing			Driver Projects	18 September 2025
Two GA4GH Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream products are now open for public comment	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Genetic Discrimination Toolkit, Genomic sequencing in newborn screening, Genetic Discrimination Toolkit		9 September 2025
GA4GH welcomes new leadership	Discovery Work Stream		Infectious Disease Community	21 August 2025
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores the perceived risks of sharing genomic data with researchers	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts		24 July 2025
Announcing two new GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) Projects			GIF Projects	22 July 2025
Two GA4GH products are now open for public comment!	Discovery Work Stream, Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	Experiments Metadata Checklist (Expmeta), Genomic sequencing in newborn screening		14 July 2025
GA4GH and CRDSA agree to a Strategic Partnership			News, Strategic Partners	24 June 2025
Policy Brief: will the UK participate in the European Health Data Space?	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)		17 June 2025
GA4GH approves two new products: Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS) and Variant Annotation Specification (VA-Spec)	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Variant Annotation (VA)	Our products	12 June 2025
Open leadership opportunity: Neuroscience Community Co-Lead			Infectious Disease Community	27 May 2025
Nicky Mulder joins the GA4GH Executive Leadership Team			Leadership	15 May 2025
Open for comment: GA4GH Policy on recognising and recommending externally developed standards, policies, and tools				15 April 2025
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new GA4GH products: refget Sequence Collections and Variation Representation Specification (VRS) v2.0.	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	refget Sequence Collections, Variation Representation Specification (VRS)	Our products	27 March 2025
Apply to open GA4GH leadership opportunities by 22 April			GA4GH Implementation Forum, Rare Disease Community	25 March 2025
Sasha Siegel joins GA4GH as Chief Product Officer			Leadership, Staff	6 March 2025
GA4GH leadership opportunities available: Co-Lead, Infectious Disease Community (ID CoI); and Co-Lead, Discovery Work Stream	Discovery Work Stream			5 March 2025
Two GA4GH products are open for public comment: Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS) and GA4GH Variant Annotation Specification (VA-Spec)	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variant Annotation (VA)	Open calls	4 March 2025
GA4GH Inc. welcomes four new Board Members				27 February 2025
The GA4GH 2024 Annual Report is now available!				20 February 2025
13th Plenary registration is now open!				6 February 2025
GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 2: consent and lawful bases)	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)		4 February 2025
GA4GH welcomes new Co-Leads for four Work Streams	Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream, Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream), Data Security Work Stream, Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)		Work Streams	30 January 2025
Join us on 27 February for a special webinar to celebrate Rare Disease Day!			Rare Disease Community	28 January 2025
GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 1: general considerations)	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)		23 January 2025
Public Attitudes blog post explores public perceptions of international genetic information sharing for biomedical research in China.	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts		16 January 2025
GA4GH Phenopackets community meetings are back!	Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream	Phenopackets		14 January 2025
The Genomic Knowledge Standards Work Stream hosts its first open house! Watch the replay.	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variant Annotation (VA), Sequence Annotation (SA)		6 January 2025
The GA4GH Model Data Access Agreement (DAA) Clauses have been approved as an official GA4GH product	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS), Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream	Data Access Committee Review Standards (DACReS) Toolkit		5 December 2024
VRS v2.0 Specification: Open for Public Comment	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream	Variation Representation Specification (VRS)		26 November 2024
Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream Open House meetings starting on 6 January	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream			22 November 2024
GA4GH Inc. opens call for new Board members to enhance global leadership in genomics				21 November 2024
🔥 Next week: Fireside Chat with Bartha Knoppers and Gerardo Jiménez Sánchez				18 November 2024
Open for comment: GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) projects and GIF Ask Me Anything (AMA) event proposal			GA4GH Implementation Forum	13 November 2024
Approved earlier this year, Diversity in Datasets urges researchers to pursue more than just "ancestral diversity"	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Diversity in Datasets		12 November 2024
We are searching for new GA4GH Co-leads!				3 October 2024
Highlights from GA4GH 12th Plenary				24 September 2024
The latest GA4GH GDPR Brief is now available.				5 September 2024
Leadership opportunity for the Cloud Work Stream	Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream)			3 September 2024
Large Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream Crypt4GH survey is now available	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	Genetic Data Encryption (Crypt4GH)		13 August 2024
GA4GH Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Jonathan Lawson	Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream			9 August 2024
VCF v4.5 is now live!	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	Genetic Variation Formats (VCF)		6 August 2024
Read our latest guest blog post: Connecting GA4GH standards to community practice through unconferences	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream		Cancer Community	16 July 2024
GA4GH and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) have agreed to a Strategic Relationship to collaborate on areas of mutual interest and promote the advancement of responsible data sharing.				11 July 2024
Bring 13th Plenary to your home country in 2025 by co-hosting the conference!				8 July 2024
Our latest public attitudes for genomic policy brief is out now				2 July 2024
GA4GH Implementation Forum Charter is now Open for Public Comment			GA4GH Implementation Forum	27 June 2024
The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine at McGill University is formally named as a Host Institution of GA4GH				20 June 2024
A letter from the Chair: introducing the members of the inaugural GA4GH Strategic Leadership Committee				13 June 2024
Join our next Fireside Chat with Daniel MacArthur and Kathryn North				4 June 2024
GA4GH submits comments on the WHO’s draft principles for human genome access, use, and sharing	Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)			29 May 2024
GA4GH Data Security Work Stream (DSWS) welcomes new Co-Leads Jaime Delgado and Andrew Russette	Data Security Work Stream			28 May 2024
The GA4GH April Connect 2024 meeting report is now available				21 May 2024
Is your organisation, project, or initiative interested in implementing Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream standards?	Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream			20 May 2024
New leadership opportunities for the Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) and Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Streams	Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream			17 May 2024
Google Summer of Code has accepted 6 GA4GH projects				15 May 2024
Do you work in a clinical genomics laboratory, or develop platforms or databases that support these laboratories?				16 April 2024
Do you currently use the Workflow Execution Service (WES)?				11 April 2024
Are you a clinical expert with knowledge on your institution's data sharing practices?				10 April 2024
Does your group or initiative work with pedigree or family health history information?		Pedigree		27 March 2024
Two GA4GH products celebrate product development milestone		Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC)		27 March 2024
Pharmacogenomics data standardisation webinar happening next week				21 March 2024
GA4GH joins Google Summer of Code for the tenth year running				20 March 2024
Cloud Work Stream 2024 Roadmap is now available	Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream)	Data Repository Service (DRS), Task Execution Service (TES), Tool Registry Service (TRS), Workflow Execution Service (WES)		12 March 2024
The next Meeting Free Week is 29 April to 3 May 2024				12 March 2024
GA4GH Implementation Forum welcomes new Co-Leads, Mallory Freeberg and Alastair Thomson			GA4GH Implementation Forum	6 March 2024
Refget: Sequence Collections v1.0 Open for Public Comment	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	refget Sequences		29 February 2024
Register for webinar: Grand challenges in rare diseases			Rare Disease Community	29 February 2024
GA4GH’s ONLY podcast, OmicsXchange, is back with Season 2!				28 February 2024
Join us for our next NIF workshop: Lessons from Implementation: sharing variants			National Initiatives Forum	27 February 2024
Welcome to the GA4GH calendar			Calendar	27 February 2024
Registration for GA4GH Connect is now available				23 February 2024
Supporting alignment across GA4GH standards: TASC seeks feedback on new pagination guide		Tool Registry Service (TRS)	Technical Alignment Subcommittee (TASC)	21 February 2024
NIH and GA4GH commit to ongoing collaboration				14 February 2024
GA4GH Implementations Criteria and Catalogue Open for Public Comment				7 February 2024
GA4GH opens call for members of the new Strategic Leadership Committee				1 February 2024
Join GA4GH Beacon Scouts	Discovery Work Stream	Beacon		30 January 2024
New leadership opportunity for the Cancer Community			Communities of Interest	24 January 2024
Join us on 2 February for our fireside chat with Heidi Rehm and Geoff Ginsburg				23 January 2024
New leadership opportunities for the Data Security Work Stream	Data Security Work Stream		Join our leadership	19 January 2024
💬 Do you have suggestions or ideas for improving interoperability across GA4GH products?	Discovery Work Stream	Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC)		16 January 2024
Join our 12 Dec fireside chat with Wellcome Sanger Institute Director Matthew Hurles!				12 December 2023
Mark your calendars: the next Meeting Free Week is from 22 to 26 January 2024.				12 December 2023
Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Mónica Muñoz-Torres				8 December 2023
GA4GH and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) launch community focused on neuroscience data interoperability				30 November 2023
Join four new GA4GH groups to help shape guidelines for pandemic prep, schema consensus, sequencing metadata, and categorical variants	Discovery Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream, Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)	Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Pathogen Genomic Data Sharing: Bridging the Sovereignty and Access Divide, Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC), Experiments Metadata Checklist (Expmeta)	Study Groups	16 November 2023
Three Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream tools power release of gnomAD v4				7 November 2023
The latest GA4GH Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief is now available.				16 October 2023
Contribute to the leadership and direction of the GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) in line with the institutional vision and goals of GA4GH.			GA4GH Implementation Forum	6 October 2023
GA4GH will observe this quarter’s Meeting Free Week for genomics from 6 to 10 November 2023.				4 October 2023
GA4GH releases Code of Ethics and Community Conduct			GA4GH Code of Ethics and Community Conduct (CECC)	27 September 2023
refget v2.0 approved	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	refget Sequences		17 July 2023
GA4GH 11th Plenary agenda now available				6 July 2023
GA4GH 11th Plenary: poster abstract submissions are now open				30 June 2023
GA4GH 11th Plenary update				8 June 2023
Interested in pharmacogenomics? Join our Study Group on 5 June 2023 at 15:00 UTC!	Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream	Pharmacogenomics Data Standardisation		5 June 2023
Welcome to the new GA4GH website!	Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream, Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream), Data Security Work Stream, Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream, Discovery Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream, Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream, Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)			12 May 2023
GA4GH April Connect 2023 registration is now open!				15 February 2023
GA4GH products open for comment: CRAM v3.1, refget v2.0	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream	CRAM, refget Sequences		15 February 2023
Deadline extended: comment on the GA4GH Connect 2023 Strategic Refresh				19 December 2022
Save the date: GA4GH April Connect 2023				8 December 2022
Thank you for attending GA4GH Virtual Connect 2022!				1 December 2022
Open for comment: GA4GH Connect 2023 Strategic Refresh				22 November 2022
Are you ready for Connect day 3 sessions?				16 November 2022
It's day 2! Take a look at today's upcoming GA4GH Virtual Connect sessions				15 November 2022
GA4GH Virtual Connect starts next Monday!				10 November 2022
GA4GH Virtual Connect 2022 AGENDA CORRECTION				4 November 2022
GA4GH Virtual Connect is two weeks away!				3 November 2022
Open for comment: Variant Summary Statistics Format v1.0	Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream			27 October 2022
GA4GH Virtual Connect 2022				11 October 2022
Thank you for attending GA4GH 10th Plenary!				30 September 2022
Join us online for GA4GH 10th Plenary this week!				19 September 2022
We are excited to welcome you to Barcelona this week!				19 September 2022
Join us for our next virtual fireside chat with Ewan Birney and David Torrents!				18 August 2022
We are excited to announce our 10th Plenary keynote speakers!				3 August 2022
Open for comment: GA4GH Code of Conduct				21 July 2022
Get ready for the GA4GH VRS Hackathon at ISMB 2022!				7 July 2022
Open for comment: GA4GH Pedigree standard				6 July 2022
Register for the GA4GH Hackathon				29 June 2022
Get started with implementing GA4GH standards in your local environment				23 June 2022
Interested in getting involved in GA4GH, or know someone who is?				22 June 2022
GA4GH participates in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)				8 June 2022
Are you ready for GA4GH 10th Plenary?				31 May 2022
Open for comment: Table of Clinical Genomics Consent Clauses				6 May 2022
The GA4GH April Connect 2022 meeting report is now available				5 May 2022
Help us shape the future of GA4GH!				3 May 2022
Open for comment: GA4GH Product Development and Approval Process				2 May 2022
Thank you for attending GA4GH April Connect 2022				22 April 2022
Welcome to GA4GH Connect day 3!				22 April 2022
Welcome to GA4GH Connect day 2!				21 April 2022
Welcome to GA4GH Connect day 1!				20 April 2022
GA4GH April Connect starts tomorrow!				19 April 2022
Save the date: GA4GH 10th Plenary meeting				13 April 2022
Last call for GA4GH Inc. Director nominations				11 April 2022
Agenda now available for GA4GH Connect 2022				31 March 2022
Do you have feedback on what GA4GH can do better?				29 March 2022
Announcing GA4GH Inc. Director nominations				24 March 2022
Register for the GHIF Newborn Sequencing Workshop				23 March 2022
New leadership opportunity for LSG				18 March 2022
Announcing new GA4GH Co-Leads				17 March 2022
Call for 2022 Connect session proposals				15 March 2022
Register for GA4GH Connect April 2022				2 March 2022
Register for GHIF Newborn Sequencing Workshop				1 March 2022
Open for comment: GA4GH Product Approval Questionnaire				25 January 2022
Open for comment: Beacon v2.0				9 December 2021
Help us improve the Passports standard!				2 December 2021
Get ready for GHIF Plenary Meeting 2021				11 November 2021
Announcing GA4GH special issue in Cell Genomics				10 November 2021
Join us for GA4GH's first fireside chat with Peter Goodhand and Catalina Lopez-Correa				3 November 2021
New GA4GH deliverable open for public comment				26 October 2021
Announcing GA4GH 9th Plenary keynote speakers				14 September 2021
New GA4GH deliverables open for public comment				1 July 2021
Open for comment: GA4GH BED v1.0				9 June 2021
Open for comment: Pediatric Consent to Genetic Research: Clauses				7 May 2021
Open for comment: Phenopackets v2.0				27 April 2021
Announcing GA4GH Chief Standards Officer				1 March 2021
GA4GH announces launch of not-for-profit organisation in Canada				4 December 2020

Precision Health Research Singapore (PRECISE) is named the first GA4GH Regional Hub Institution

29 September 2026

New GA4GH Policy Brief discusses the EDPB Guidelines 1/2026 about what “scientific research purposes” are in the context of personal data processing

Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)

1 September 2026

New Product in Action: Greater Bay Area Bioinformatics Center leverages GA4GH standards to navigate data sovereignty and advance genomic research in China

Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream)

Data Repository Service (DRS), Tool Registry Service (TRS), Workflow Execution Service (WES), Task Execution Service (TES), Passports

4 August 2026

New GA4GH Product in Action: Individual-Centric Genomics Platform JPN

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Variant Annotation (VA)

GA4GH Products in Action

21 July 2026

Genomics England has become a Core Funder of GA4GH.

Funders Forum

9 July 2026

The GA4GH Analytics Dashboard translates a decade of open science into data

4 June 2026

The GA4GH Product Development and Approval Process is now open for comment

28 May 2026

GA4GH and INMEGEN agree to a Strategic Partnership to expand the use of genomic data standards in Latin America

21 May 2026

GA4GH publishes its 2025 Annual Report

GA4GH Annual Report

10 April 2026

Introducing GA4GH’s new AI Work Stream

Work Streams

7 April 2026

Open leadership opportunity: GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) Co-Lead

GA4GH Implementation Forum

17 March 2026

GA4GH 14th Plenary registration is now open! Join us in Singapore from 28 September to 2 October.

Events

12 March 2026

Join the next GIF “Ask Me Anything" event featuring Crypt4GH on 31 March!

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

Genetic Data Encryption (Crypt4GH)

GIF "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) programmes, History

6 March 2026

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream products

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Genomic sequencing in newborn screening, Position Statement on Genetic Discrimination, Genetic Discrimination Toolkit

News, Our products

3 March 2026

New GA4GH implementation story: Rakeiora Genomics Platform in New Zealand

htsget, Passports, Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI), Framework for responsible sharing of genomic and health-related data

29 January 2026

GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post discusses how older research participants are motivated to receive genetic results for the benefit of younger relatives

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts

Public Attitudes for Genomics and Policy Blog

9 December 2025

Introducing new GA4GH Community of Interest leadership!

Neuroscience Community, Rare Disease Community

4 December 2025

GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores individual attitudes toward medical and genetic data sharing in Latin America and the development of two new indexes

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts

20 November 2025

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

Discovery Work Stream, Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Experiments Metadata Checklist (Expmeta), Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Quality Control (QC) Standards

Our products

13 November 2025

GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores the role of the ‘commercialisation effect’ in shaping Australians’ attitudes towards a hypothetical national genomic repository

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts

30 October 2025

Join the next "Ask Me Anything" session featuring GA4GH Passports

Data Security Work Stream, Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream

Passports, Data Passports

30 September 2025

GA4GH GIF Spotlight is now open for public comment

23 September 2025

New GA4GH Guest Blog Post: Borderless data, boundless hurdles: navigating the challenges of international federated sharing

Driver Projects

18 September 2025

Two GA4GH Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream products are now open for public comment

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Genetic Discrimination Toolkit, Genomic sequencing in newborn screening, Genetic Discrimination Toolkit

9 September 2025

GA4GH welcomes new leadership

Discovery Work Stream

Infectious Disease Community

21 August 2025

GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores the perceived risks of sharing genomic data with researchers

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts

24 July 2025

Announcing two new GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) Projects

GIF Projects

22 July 2025

Two GA4GH products are now open for public comment!

Discovery Work Stream, Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

Experiments Metadata Checklist (Expmeta), Genomic sequencing in newborn screening

14 July 2025

GA4GH and CRDSA agree to a Strategic Partnership

News, Strategic Partners

24 June 2025

Policy Brief: will the UK participate in the European Health Data Space?

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)

17 June 2025

GA4GH approves two new products: Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS) and Variant Annotation Specification (VA-Spec)

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Variant Annotation (VA)

Our products

12 June 2025

Open leadership opportunity: Neuroscience Community Co-Lead

Infectious Disease Community

27 May 2025

Nicky Mulder joins the GA4GH Executive Leadership Team

Leadership

15 May 2025

Open for comment: GA4GH Policy on recognising and recommending externally developed standards, policies, and tools

15 April 2025

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new GA4GH products: refget Sequence Collections and Variation Representation Specification (VRS) v2.0.

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

refget Sequence Collections, Variation Representation Specification (VRS)

Our products

27 March 2025

Apply to open GA4GH leadership opportunities by 22 April

GA4GH Implementation Forum, Rare Disease Community

25 March 2025

Sasha Siegel joins GA4GH as Chief Product Officer

Leadership, Staff

6 March 2025

GA4GH leadership opportunities available: Co-Lead, Infectious Disease Community (ID CoI); and Co-Lead, Discovery Work Stream

Discovery Work Stream

5 March 2025

Two GA4GH products are open for public comment: Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS) and GA4GH Variant Annotation Specification (VA-Spec)

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variant Annotation (VA)

Open calls

4 March 2025

GA4GH Inc. welcomes four new Board Members

27 February 2025

The GA4GH 2024 Annual Report is now available!

20 February 2025

13th Plenary registration is now open!

6 February 2025

GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 2: consent and lawful bases)

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)

4 February 2025

GA4GH welcomes new Co-Leads for four Work Streams

Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream, Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream), Data Security Work Stream, Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Work Streams

30 January 2025

Join us on 27 February for a special webinar to celebrate Rare Disease Day!

Rare Disease Community

28 January 2025

GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 1: general considerations)

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Health Data Sharing, Privacy, and Regulatory Forum (formerly GDPR Forum)

23 January 2025

Public Attitudes blog post explores public perceptions of international genetic information sharing for biomedical research in China.

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy — Blog Posts

16 January 2025

GA4GH Phenopackets community meetings are back!

Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream

Phenopackets

14 January 2025

The Genomic Knowledge Standards Work Stream hosts its first open house! Watch the replay.

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Variant Annotation (VA), Sequence Annotation (SA)

6 January 2025

The GA4GH Model Data Access Agreement (DAA) Clauses have been approved as an official GA4GH product

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS), Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream

Data Access Committee Review Standards (DACReS) Toolkit

5 December 2024

VRS v2.0 Specification: Open for Public Comment

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Variation Representation Specification (VRS)

26 November 2024

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream Open House meetings starting on 6 January

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

22 November 2024

GA4GH Inc. opens call for new Board members to enhance global leadership in genomics

21 November 2024

🔥 Next week: Fireside Chat with Bartha Knoppers and Gerardo Jiménez Sánchez

18 November 2024

Open for comment: GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) projects and GIF Ask Me Anything (AMA) event proposal

GA4GH Implementation Forum

13 November 2024

Approved earlier this year, Diversity in Datasets urges researchers to pursue more than just "ancestral diversity"

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Diversity in Datasets

12 November 2024

We are searching for new GA4GH Co-leads!

3 October 2024

Highlights from GA4GH 12th Plenary

24 September 2024

The latest GA4GH GDPR Brief is now available.

5 September 2024

Leadership opportunity for the Cloud Work Stream

Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream)

3 September 2024

Large Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream Crypt4GH survey is now available

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

Genetic Data Encryption (Crypt4GH)

13 August 2024

GA4GH Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Jonathan Lawson

Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream

9 August 2024

VCF v4.5 is now live!

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

Genetic Variation Formats (VCF)

6 August 2024

Read our latest guest blog post: Connecting GA4GH standards to community practice through unconferences

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

Cancer Community

16 July 2024

GA4GH and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) have agreed to a Strategic Relationship to collaborate on areas of mutual interest and promote the advancement of responsible data sharing.

11 July 2024

Bring 13th Plenary to your home country in 2025 by co-hosting the conference!

8 July 2024

Our latest public attitudes for genomic policy brief is out now

2 July 2024

GA4GH Implementation Forum Charter is now Open for Public Comment

GA4GH Implementation Forum

27 June 2024

The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine at McGill University is formally named as a Host Institution of GA4GH

20 June 2024

A letter from the Chair: introducing the members of the inaugural GA4GH Strategic Leadership Committee

13 June 2024

Join our next Fireside Chat with Daniel MacArthur and Kathryn North

4 June 2024

GA4GH submits comments on the WHO’s draft principles for human genome access, use, and sharing

Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

29 May 2024

GA4GH Data Security Work Stream (DSWS) welcomes new Co-Leads Jaime Delgado and Andrew Russette

Data Security Work Stream

28 May 2024

The GA4GH April Connect 2024 meeting report is now available

21 May 2024

Is your organisation, project, or initiative interested in implementing Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream standards?

Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

20 May 2024

New leadership opportunities for the Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) and Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Streams

Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream

17 May 2024

Google Summer of Code has accepted 6 GA4GH projects

15 May 2024

Do you work in a clinical genomics laboratory, or develop platforms or databases that support these laboratories?

16 April 2024

Do you currently use the Workflow Execution Service (WES)?

11 April 2024

Are you a clinical expert with knowledge on your institution's data sharing practices?

10 April 2024

Does your group or initiative work with pedigree or family health history information?

Pedigree

27 March 2024

Two GA4GH products celebrate product development milestone

Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC)

27 March 2024

Pharmacogenomics data standardisation webinar happening next week

21 March 2024

GA4GH joins Google Summer of Code for the tenth year running

20 March 2024

Cloud Work Stream 2024 Roadmap is now available

Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream)

Data Repository Service (DRS), Task Execution Service (TES), Tool Registry Service (TRS), Workflow Execution Service (WES)

12 March 2024

The next Meeting Free Week is 29 April to 3 May 2024

12 March 2024

GA4GH Implementation Forum welcomes new Co-Leads, Mallory Freeberg and Alastair Thomson

GA4GH Implementation Forum

6 March 2024

Refget: Sequence Collections v1.0 Open for Public Comment

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

refget Sequences

29 February 2024

Register for webinar: Grand challenges in rare diseases

Rare Disease Community

29 February 2024

GA4GH’s ONLY podcast, OmicsXchange, is back with Season 2!

28 February 2024

Join us for our next NIF workshop: Lessons from Implementation: sharing variants

National Initiatives Forum

27 February 2024

Registration for GA4GH Connect is now available

23 February 2024

Supporting alignment across GA4GH standards: TASC seeks feedback on new pagination guide

Tool Registry Service (TRS)

Technical Alignment Subcommittee (TASC)

21 February 2024

NIH and GA4GH commit to ongoing collaboration

14 February 2024

GA4GH Implementations Criteria and Catalogue Open for Public Comment

7 February 2024

GA4GH opens call for members of the new Strategic Leadership Committee

1 February 2024

Join GA4GH Beacon Scouts

Discovery Work Stream

Beacon

30 January 2024

New leadership opportunity for the Cancer Community

Communities of Interest

24 January 2024

Join us on 2 February for our fireside chat with Heidi Rehm and Geoff Ginsburg

23 January 2024

New leadership opportunities for the Data Security Work Stream

Data Security Work Stream

Join our leadership

19 January 2024

💬 Do you have suggestions or ideas for improving interoperability across GA4GH products?

Discovery Work Stream

Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC)

16 January 2024

Join our 12 Dec fireside chat with Wellcome Sanger Institute Director Matthew Hurles!

12 December 2023

Mark your calendars: the next Meeting Free Week is from 22 to 26 January 2024.

12 December 2023

Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Mónica Muñoz-Torres

8 December 2023

GA4GH and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) launch community focused on neuroscience data interoperability

30 November 2023

Join four new GA4GH groups to help shape guidelines for pandemic prep, schema consensus, sequencing metadata, and categorical variants

Discovery Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream, Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Variation Representation Specification (VRS), Pathogen Genomic Data Sharing: Bridging the Sovereignty and Access Divide, Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS), Data Model and Schema Consensus (DaMaSC), Experiments Metadata Checklist (Expmeta)

Study Groups

16 November 2023

Three Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream tools power release of gnomAD v4

7 November 2023

The latest GA4GH Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief is now available.

16 October 2023

Contribute to the leadership and direction of the GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) in line with the institutional vision and goals of GA4GH.

GA4GH Implementation Forum

6 October 2023

GA4GH will observe this quarter’s Meeting Free Week for genomics from 6 to 10 November 2023.

4 October 2023

GA4GH releases Code of Ethics and Community Conduct

GA4GH Code of Ethics and Community Conduct (CECC)

27 September 2023

refget v2.0 approved

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

refget Sequences

17 July 2023

GA4GH 11th Plenary agenda now available

6 July 2023

GA4GH 11th Plenary: poster abstract submissions are now open

30 June 2023

GA4GH 11th Plenary update

8 June 2023

Interested in pharmacogenomics? Join our Study Group on 5 June 2023 at 15:00 UTC!

Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream

Pharmacogenomics Data Standardisation

5 June 2023

Welcome to the new GA4GH website!

Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture (Clin/Pheno) Work Stream, Federated Analysis Work Stream (formerly Cloud Work Stream), Data Security Work Stream, Data Use & Researcher Identity (DURI) Work Stream, Discovery Work Stream, Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream, Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream, Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

12 May 2023

GA4GH April Connect 2023 registration is now open!

15 February 2023

GA4GH products open for comment: CRAM v3.1, refget v2.0

Large-Scale Genomics (LSG) Work Stream

CRAM, refget Sequences

15 February 2023