IHCC Leadership
Co-Chairs
Geoffrey Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D.
IHCC Co-Chair
- Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health
- Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Biography: All of US Research Program
Michele Ramsay, Ph.D.
IHCC Co-Chair
- 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
Executive Committee
Comprised of IHCC Co-Chairs and the following members:
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)
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
Nicky Mulder
IHCC Executive 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
Nicki Tiffin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Professor, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Ricardo A. Verdugo, Ph.D.
IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Assistant Professor, Human Genetics Program, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile
- Department of Basic-Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile
Biography: ResearchGate
Steering Committee
Comprised of IHCC Executive Committee, Working Group leads, and the members listed below:
Nahla Al Afifi, M.D., Ph.D.
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Director of Qatar Biobank, Qatar Foundation
Biography: Qatar Foundation
Sarah Bauermeister, Ph.D., CPsychol
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Neuropsychologist and Epidemiologist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
- Senior Scientist and Senior Data Manager, Dementias Platform UK (DPUK)
Biography: University of Oxford
Arash Etemadi, M.D., Ph.D.
IHCC Steering Committee Member
- Staff Scientist, Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Biography: NIH National Cancer Institute
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
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
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
Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Ph.D.
Team Co-Lead: Training, Sharing, and Capacity Development
- Principal Research Fellow, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology / Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health; University College London; London, UK
- Biography: EGA Institute for Women’s Health
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
