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Learn how GA4GH helps expand responsible genomic data use to benefit human health.
Learn how GA4GH helps expand responsible genomic data use to benefit human health.
Our Strategic Road Map defines strategies, standards, and policy frameworks to support responsible global use of genomic and related health data.
Discover how a meeting of 50 leaders in genomics and medicine led to an alliance uniting more than 5,000 individuals and organisations to benefit human health.
GA4GH Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the global GA4GH community.
The GA4GH Council, consisting of the Executive Committee, Strategic Leadership Committee, and Product Steering Committee, guides our collaborative, globe-spanning alliance.
The Funders Forum brings together organisations that offer both financial support and strategic guidance.
The EDI Advisory Group responds to issues raised in the GA4GH community, finding equitable, inclusive ways to build products that benefit diverse groups.
Distributed across a number of Host Institutions, our staff team supports the mission and operations of GA4GH.
Curious who we are? Meet the people and organisations across six continents who make up GA4GH.
More than 500 organisations connected to genomics — in healthcare, research, patient advocacy, industry, and beyond — have signed onto the mission and vision of GA4GH as Organisational Members.
These core Organisational Members are genomic data initiatives that have committed resources to guide GA4GH work and pilot our products.
This subset of Organisational Members whose networks or infrastructure align with GA4GH priorities has made a long-term commitment to engaging with our community.
Local and national organisations assign experts to spend at least 30% of their time building GA4GH products.
Anyone working in genomics and related fields is invited to participate in our inclusive community by creating and using new products.
Wondering what GA4GH does? Learn how we find and overcome challenges to expanding responsible genomic data use for the benefit of human health.
Study Groups define needs. Participants survey the landscape of the genomics and health community and determine whether GA4GH can help.
Work Streams create products. Community members join together to develop technical standards, policy frameworks, and policy tools that overcome hurdles to international genomic data use.
GIF solves problems. Organisations in the forum pilot GA4GH products in real-world situations. Along the way, they troubleshoot products, suggest updates, and flag additional needs.
NIF finds challenges and opportunities in genomics at a global scale. National programmes meet to share best practices, avoid incompatabilities, and help translate genomics into benefits for human health.
Communities of Interest find challenges and opportunities in areas such as rare disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Participants pinpoint real-world problems that would benefit from broad data use.
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All GA4GH standards, frameworks, and tools follow the Product Development and Approval Process before being officially adopted.
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Help create new global standards and frameworks for responsible genomic data use.
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Solve real problems by aligning your organisation with the world’s genomics standards. We offer software dvelopers both customisable and out-of-the-box solutions to help you get started.
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The Product Management Lead will be a global leader and a champion for GA4GH standards and policy frameworks, representing the organisation and helping to set the global genomics interoperability agenda.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Product Management Lead for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), who will be based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, UK. This is a varied role providing an opportunity to collaborate with a global community of leaders in genomics, computing and medicine, working toward delivering the full benefit of genomics in healthcare. GA4GH is the international standards setting organisation in human genomics IT which is run as a collaboration between a not-for-profit Canadian company and five Host Institutions: the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine at McGill University, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and EMBL-EBI.
GA4GH brings together contributors from healthcare, research, patient advocacy, life science, and information technology to create frameworks and standards to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and health-related data. GA4GH standards include file formats for largescale genomic data, services for executing analytical workflows in varied compute environments, models for phenotypic and clinical data capable of integrating with electronic health records, and methods for secure data access.
You will be part of and help manage the globally distributed GA4GH staff team, a matrix organisation of approximately 20 team members. The Product Management Lead has primary responsibility for the processes and practices, which we define to achieve the development of GA4GH products consistent with strategy defined by the GA4GH CEO and Executive Committee. You will define the technical priorities of the organisation, confirm the roadmaps defined by the GA4GH Work Streams, and guide the activities of the broader network of GA4GH volunteers and assigned experts.
As the Product Management Lead, you will be a global leader and a champion for GA4GH standards and policy frameworks, representing the organisation and helping to set the global genomics interoperability agenda. You will ensure that GA4GH is a credible standards development organisation (SDO) in the eyes of regulators, researchers, healthcare, industry, and more. Global professional experience is a priority for the position.
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
The key duties and responsibilities of this role include:
In all activities and communications, serve as a champion of GA4GH efforts and demonstrate a lasting commitment to open genomic standards.