ABOUT IHCC
Leadership Team
CO-CHAIRS
- 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
- 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
IHCC National Institutes of Health (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)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Executive Committee is comprised of IHCC Co-Chairs and the following members:
- 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
- Professor, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- 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
The Steering Committee is comprised of the IHCC Executive Committee, Working Group leads, and the following members:
- Director of Qatar Biobank, Qatar Foundation
- Biography: Qatar Foundation
- Neuropsychologist and Epidemiologist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
- Senior Scientist and Senior Data Manager, Dementias Platform UK (DPUK)
- Biography: University of Oxford
- Staff Scientist, Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH
- Biography: NIH National Cancer Institute
- Deputy Director, Advanced Center of Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS)
- Director, Ph.D. Program in Epidemiology Department of Public Health/ School of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Director of the MAUCO cohort, Chili
- 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
- 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
WORKING GROUP LEADS
Data Standards and Infrastructure Working Group
- Team Leader, EGA and Archive Infrastructure, EMBL-EBI
- Biography: EMBL-EBI
- 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 Strategy and Cohorts Enhancement Working Group
- Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
- Biography: University of Cambridge
- Director, Center for Applied Genomics, The Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Biography: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
