View in browser

GA4GH career opportunities

GA4GH News

Finding a route out of the impasse? Ordering the secondary processing of already gathered data in a Code of Conduct

May 21 • Duke-NUS Medical School, USA

Multi-dataset, secondary (further) processing of already gathered data (“secondary processing”) is crucial for genomic and health research. However, data protection practice creates barriers to this work. This note suggests a way of thinking about this in practice, and conceptual steps that an Article 40 Code of Conduct (a Code) (at least) needs to resolve to remove the barriers. (See also Dove, 2019) Two parallel lines require solution: issues around “legal basis”, “processing” and “purpose”; the duty to inform the data subject.

GA4GH Mentions

Putting Genome UK into practice: genomic healthcare strategy implementation

May 19 • University of Cambridge, UK

Taking an even broader, international view, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health will receive funding from the NIHR, MRC and Wellcome Trust to develop and promote standards and policies for sharing genomic and related health data.

Genome Canada And McGill To Track COVID-19 Variants Of Concern

April 27 • McGill University, Canada

Dr. Bourque’s team will work with DNAstack to integrate COVID Cloud, a cloud-based platform that helps researchers and decision makers derive insights about COVID-19 from genomics and other datasets. COVID Cloud shares data over open standards developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health and provides tools for researchers to find, visualize, and analyze datasets in the cloud. COVID Cloud is developed by a consortium of Canadian partners and funded by Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster.