GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare
Heidi L. Rehm, Angela J.H. Page, Mélanie Courtot, Jonathan Dursi, Lauren A. Fromont, Thomas M. Keane, Mikael Linden, Isuru Udara Liyanage, Nicola Mulder, Jordi Rambla, Gary I. Saunders, et al.
Rehm et al. describe the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), which develops technical standards and policy frameworks to enable responsible international human genomic and biomedical data sharing. Broad international participation in building, adopting, and deploying these standards is necessary to bridge research and healthcare and is critical to making the best use of genomic data to inform advances in medicine and human health.