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Monthly Update - January 2025

Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE)

Improving openness and interoperability in Public Health Bioinformatics

发布日期: 2025年1月31日

Pathogen genomics under the spotlight at Thailand meeting

With PHA4GE members spread across the globe, in-person meetups are always a valued opportunity. Several members recently gathered at the IPSN Global Partners Forum in Bangkok, Thailand (Nov 21–22, 2024) to connect, collaborate, and advance global pathogen surveillance efforts.?

PHA4GE doing its bit in new Global Wastewater Initiative

Prof. Alan Christoffels joined the GLOWACON Regional Conference in Addis Ababa,?supporting efforts to integrate wastewater monitoring into public health systems worldwide.

Member Profile - Meet Rito Mikhari-Chauke

Rito is?a Bioinformatician at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (South Africa), specializing in bacterial pathogen genomics and public health. Passionate about bridging medical microbiology and public health, she explores metagenomic approaches for meningitis pathogen sequencing.

SANBI and PHA4GE contribute to biodata curation

The Africa CDC hosted its second data-curation workshop in Addis Ababa, building capacity for high-quality pathogen data sharing via the Agari platform. Experts from PHA4GE, SANBI, and NCBI led the training to enhance public health data use.

PHA4GE gathers to talk malaria data standards in New Orleans

PHA4GE kicked off work on malaria genomics data standards at ASTMH 2024 in New Orleans, where Alan Christoffels and Tracey Calvert-Joshua presented a funding proposal on metadata collection.

New PHA4GE AI Working Group

Exciting news!

PHA4GE is launching an AI Working Group to explore AI in genomic epidemiology, drive collaborations, and develop global standards. If you're interested in joining or leading, share your ideas in our short Google Form.