Global Alliance for Genomics and Health


The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health is an international consortium that is developing standards for responsibly collecting, storing, analyzing, and sharing genomic data in order to enable an "internet of genomics".
GA4GH was founded in 2013  and is maintained by three Host Institutions. Ewan Birney is the current GA4GH chair and Peter Goodhand is the Chief Executive Officer. Heidi Rehm and Kathryn North are the current Vice Chairs.
GA4GH is founded on the , which is based on the human right to benefit from scientific advances.
All GA4GH standards are developed by six technical and two foundational "Work Streams" in collaboration with real-world genomic data initiatives called "Driver Projects."

GA4GH Work Streams

  1. Regulatory and Ethics  
  2. Data Security  
  3.  
  4. Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture  
  5. Data Use and Researcher Identities  
  6.  
  7. Genomic Knowledge Standards  

  8. GA4GH Driver Projects

  9. All of US Research Program
  10. Australian Genomics
  11. BRCA Challenge
  12. Canadian Distributed Infrastructure for Genomics
  13. Clinical Genome Resource
  14. ELIXIR Beacon
  15. The European Nucleotide Archive, European Variation Archive, and European Genome-phenome Archive at EMBL-EBI
  16. Genomics England
  17. Human Cell Atlas
  18. International Cancer Genome Consortium - ARGO
  19. Matchmaker Exchange
  20. The Monarch Initiative
  21. National Cancer Institute Data Commons Framework and Genomic Data Commons
  22. Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine
  23. Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium