IHCC Leadership
Co-Chairs
Geoffrey Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D.
IHCC Co-Chair
- President, G2MC
- Director, Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine
- Director, Duke MEDx Initiative
- Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Biomedical Engineering
Biographies: Duke Precision Medicine | Duke Department of Medicine
Executive Committee
Comprised of IHCC Co-Chairs and the following members:
Zhengming Chen, DPhil
IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Director, China Programmes
- Co-Executive Director, China Oxford Centre for International Health Research
- Professor of Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Biography: Nuffield Department of Population Health
Robert Eiss
IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Senior Global Health Adviser to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Fogarty International Center
Biography: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Paul Elliott, Professor, MMBS, Ph.D., FMedSci
IHCC Executive Committee Member
- IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Professor of epidemiology and public health medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
- Honorary consultant in public health, Directorate of Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, UK
- Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
Biography: Imperial College London
Norihiro Kato, M.D., Ph.D.
IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Director, Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
- Director General, Medical Genomics Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
Rongling Li, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
IHCC NIH Liaison
- Program Director and Epidemiologist, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health
Steering Committee
Comprised of IHCC Executive Committee, Working Group leads, and the members listed below:
Catterina Ferreccio
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Deputy Director Advanced Center of Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS)
- Director PhD Program in Epidemiology Department of Public Health/ School of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Director of the MAUCO cohort, Chili
Kobus Herbst
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Faculty member and the Population Science Lead at the Africa Health Research Institute and the principal investigator of its Population Intervention Program (PIP).
- Honorary professor at the University of Limpopo
- Director of the SAPRIN cohort, South Africa
Michele Ramsay
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Professor in the Division of Human Genetics at the National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits),
- Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the Wits University
- Project Leader of the AWI-Gen Consortium Study, part of H3Africa, South Africa
Nicky Mulder
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Professor and head of the Computational Biology (CBIO) division at the University of Cape Town
- Principal investigator of H3ABioNet, a Pan African bioinformatics network for H3Africa, South Africa
Rahman Jamal
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Professor of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology, and Molecular Biology at the UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI)
- Project Director for the Hospital Kanak-Kanak Permata UKM (HKKP-UKM)
- Project Leader of The Malaysian Cohort project, Malaysia
Reza Malekzadeh, M.D., AGAF
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Deputy of Technology and Research at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education
- Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Director of the Digestive Diseases Research Institute at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Director of the PERSIAN Cohort and the Golestan Cohort, Iran
Data Interoperability & Connectivity Working Group Leads
Thomas Keane, Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Data Interoperability & Connectivity
- Team Co-Lead: Data Interoperability and Connectivity
- Team Leader, EGA and Archive Infrastructure, EMBL-EBI
Biography: EMBL-EBI
Philip Awadalla, Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Data Interoperability & Connectivity
- Director, Computational Biology, OICR
- Senior Investigator, OICR
- Executive Scientific Director, Ontario Health Study
- National Scientific Director, Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health
- Principal Investigator & Director, Genome Canada Canadian Data Integration Centre
- Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
- Adjunct Professor, CHUM, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal
Biography: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Scientific Strategies Working Group Leads
Adam Butterworth, Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Scientific Strategies
- Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
Biography: University of Cambridge
Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Scientific Strategies
- Director, Center for Applied Genomics,
The Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Biography: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Gad Rennert, M.D., Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Scientific Strategies
- Member, G2MC Steering Committee
- Director, Clalit National Israeli Cancer Control Center
- Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, Carmel Medical Center
Biography: Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF)
Policies and Systems Working Group Leads
Nicki Tiffin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Team Co-Lead: Policies and Systems
- Professor, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Policies and Systems
- Director, Genome Policy and National Engagement, Geisinger National Precision Health
Training, Sharing, and Capacity Development Working Group Leads
Paballo Chauke
Team Co-Lead: Training, Sharing, and Capacity Development
- Program Coordinator at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town
- Bioinformatics Training and Outreach Coordinator for H3ABIONET, South Africa
Albert Tenesa
Team Co-Lead: Training, Sharing, and Capacity Development
- Professor of Quantitative Genetics at the University of Edinburgh
- Co-Principal Investigator of the Coronagene cohort, UK
