GA4GH will hold its 9th annual Plenary Meeting on September 28 and 29, 2021. Open, free, and virtual, 9th Plenary aims to bring together the global genomics and health community to address the complexities of sharing genomic and related health data across traditional bounds. This year, Dr. Harold Varmus and Dr. Alan Christoffels will join GA4GH 9th Plenary as keynote speakers.
This GA4GH Community Spotlight is the fourth in a monthly series featuring individuals from across GA4GH. This month we are featuring Professor Zornitza Stark who is a clinical geneticist working at Australian Genomics and the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services.
CanDIG uses OIDC and its related tokens to achieve authentication and authorization in a distributed manner. This is a critical use case for CanDIG. CanDIG’s AAI implementation extends OIDC by using the Global Alliance for Genomic Health (GA4GH). GA4GH defines the claims carried within the OIDC token (renamed Passport in the GA4GH spec) that help with upstream authorization. Any claim in the token (which is a JSON Web Token) is merely a key-value pair within its payload section.
This will inevitably bring the realms of research and clinical care together, and will require us to address fundamental questions about data ownership, privacy, equality of access, fairness and social responsibility. Global efforts to create such standards are in place, for example the Global Alliance for Genomic Health.
September 7 • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
GA4GH Events
Please join us for the next GA4GH 101 Webinar held on September 21.You'll learn about our mission, how we're structured, accomplishments so far, and opportunities to get involved.
GA4GH 9th Plenary is an annual conference bringing together organizations and stakeholders from the genomics and health community to advance international genomics interoperability and sharing. Join us on September 28 and 29 for keynotes, panels, workshops, and updates!
The GA4GH October Connect Meeting will be held virtually on October 12 – October 14. October Connect will be a three day long event that will provide opportunities for collaboration across Work Streams and Driver Projects and for contributors to advance work on the GA4GH Strategic Roadmap.
