International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC)

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

Peter Goodhand

IHCC Co-Chair

• CEO, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
• Member, G2MC Steering Committee
• Co-chair, Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Global Genes
• Board member Rare – X
• SAB – EUCANCan

Biographies: LinkedIn | Wikipedia

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

Biography: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

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

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

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

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

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