- 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
Geoffrey Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Our Leadership
Co-Chairs
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
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is comprised of the 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
Robert Eiss
- IHCC Executive Committee Member
- Senior Global Health Adviser to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Fogarty International Center
Paul Elliott, Professor, MMBS, Ph.D., FMedSci
- 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
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
The Steering Committee is comprised of the IHCC Executive Committee, Working Group leads, and the members listed below.
Catterina Ferreccio
- 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
- 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
- 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
Nicki Tiffin
- Team Co-Lead: Policies and Systems
- Associate Professor at Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Africa (CIDRI)
- Computational Biology Division at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
Nicky Mulder
- 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
- 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
- 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
Thomas Keane, Ph.D.
- Team Co-Lead: Data Interoperability and Connectivity
- Team Leader, EGA and Archive Infrastructure, EMBL-EBI
Philip Awadalla, Ph.D.
- Team Co-Lead: Data Interoperability and Connectivity
- Director, Computational Biology, OICR
- Senior Investigator, OICR
Adam Butterworth, Ph.D.
- Team Co-Lead: Scientific Strategies
- Reader in Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.
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
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
Nicki Tiffin
- Team Co-Lead: Policies and Systems
- Associate Professor at Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Africa (CIDRI)
- Computational Biology Division at the University of 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
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
