
alan christoffels
@alangchris
Bioinformatics - microbial genomics; genome evolution; infectious diseases
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http://christoffels.sanbi.ac.za 17-03-2015 12:16:59
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Exciting to attend the launch of the global consortium for wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) for public health. Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology contributing to the global WES framework.




Seq data of varying quality can be used for different public health applications (analysis, training, more). Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology standardized QC tags help users share, triage, and identify a wider array of data in public repos. For more info, see: shorturl.at/1yaCw hot off the presses!

Exciting to see the launch of the first data curation workshop at the Africa CDC in partnership with NCBI and SANBI. The vision for Africa CDC is to strengthen data governance in Africa. Valerie Schneider providing the opening remarks. Mastercard Foundation Gates Foundation


The vision of Africa CDC Pathogen Genomics Initiative #PGI is to strengthen data governance in Africa that will inform a data driven public health response to disease outbreaks. In partnership with the National Center for Biotechnology and Information (NCBI), we are launching the



Sysadmin curriculum planning workshop to support public health institutes. Excited to be hosting sysadmin staff from #Senegal, #Uganda,#Ghana,#Tunis, #kenya, #SouthAfrica,#UK,#Germany. Africa CDC SAMRC KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Institut Pasteur de Tunis 🇹🇳 معهد باستور تونس Institut Pasteur de Dakar CLIMB-BIG-DATA


Day2 sysadmin curriculum development. Experiences shared across diverse research and #PublicHealth ecosystems. 1) sysadmin critical to support datascience, 2) funding models do not sustain sysadmin skills retention. Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology Africa CDC




Want to know more about #AMRColab ? Su Datt Lam will be sharing more during a webinar by Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology on 26th November - register : x.com/pha4ge/status/… Ang Mia Yang Sabrina Di Gregorio Emma Griffiths tzmtj


We Successfully concluded project planning with the Africa CDC pathogen team and ASLM. Role out of Pathogen genomics projects including computational infrastructure for national public health labs. Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology SAMRC


I am excited to in Uganda at the malaria molecular surveillance workshop on data standards and analysis tools. Meeting organised by Africa CDC PGI and Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology. Opening talks by leading malaria experts in Africa: Profs Alfred Ngwa and Charles Wondji


Honored to be attending the Africa CDC meeting in Entebbe - Uganda led by Prof alan christoffels, where I'm engaging with experts on Data standards for malaria molecular surveillance in public health. Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology Africa CDC


Day2 of the malaria molecular surveillance (MMS) meeting in #Uganda. Thought provoking discussions on the data and analytics needs to ensure MMS is routinely used in #publichealth surveillance Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology Wellcome Sanger Institute Africa CDC
