Closing the Data Gap in Global Genomics, Medicine & Population Health (D2)
April 27-30, 2026
| Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Michele Ramsay, Lyndon Mitnaul and Naomi Allen
Scholarship Deadline: Feb. 4, 2026 | Abstract Deadline: Apr. 7, 2026 | Early Registration Deadline: Feb. 27, 2026
| 4:00–8:00 PM |
Registration |
Grand Mussmann Hotel, Tivoli Room |
| 6:00–8:00 PM |
Welcome Mixer |
Central-Hotel Kaiserhof |
| 8:00–9:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Individual Hotel |
| 8:30–9:00 AM |
Poster Setup |
Ballroom |
| 8:45–5:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Ballroom |
| 9:00–9:10 AM |
Welcome Remarks |
Auditorium |
| 9:10–10:00 AM |
Keynote Address |
Auditorium |
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Jeremy Farrar, World Health Organization
Talk Title to be Announced |
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| 10:00–12:15 PM |
Global Insights and Breadth of Longitudinal Cohort Research: The Americas and Europe |
Auditorium |
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Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, National Institutes of Health
NIH All of Us Research Program: Opportunities to Advance Science and Public Health |
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Naomi Allen, University of Oxford / UK Biobank
UK Biobank: Opportunities to Advance Science and Public Health |
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Pablo Kuri-Morales, Mexico City Prospective Study
MCPS: Opportunities to Advance Science and Public Health |
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Cynthia Tchio †, Massachusetts General Hospital
Short Talk: Closing the Data Gap in the Genetics of Sleep Duration Through Global Multi- Biobank and Rare Variant Analyses |
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| 10:30–10:50 AM |
Coffee Break |
Foyer |
| 12:15–1:15 PM |
Lunch |
Ballroom |
| 12:45–2:30 PM |
Poster Session 1 |
Ballroom |
| 2:30–4:30 PM |
Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-Breaking Accomplishments in Precision Medicine Research (Emerging from Population Health Studies in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres) |
Auditorium |
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Tinashe Adrian Mazhindu †, African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology
Pharmacogenomic Impact on Breast Cancer Survival for Black Zimbabwean Patients on Tamoxifen |
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Angelica Beate Winter Boldt, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Precision Pharmacogenetics in South Brazilian Mennonites |
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Elvis K Poku-Adusei, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Pharmacogenetics And Pharmacogenomics Insights From Whole Genome Sequencing Of Orofacial Clefts Case-Parents Trios |
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Thais C de Oliveira, University of Campinas
Pharmacogenomic Variation Across Nuclear and Mitochondrial Ancestry in Brazil’s Admixed Elderly Population |
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Jeremy Schraw, Baylor College of Medicine
Genome-Wide Association Study of Non-Syndromic Microtia in a Predominantly Hispanic Sample identifies Risk Variant Near ROBO1 and Association with Indigenous Ancestr |
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Scott J Hebbring, Marshfield Clinic
Long-Telomeropathy Is Associated With Tumor-Like Syndrome |
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Jacob Apibilla Ayembilla †, Accra Technical University
Causal Effects of Blood Cell Traits on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Continental African Populations: A Mendelian Randomization Study |
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Foyer |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Global Insights and Breadth of Longitudinal Cohort Research: Asia, the Middle East, and Africa |
Auditorium |
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Amelia C. Crampin, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
MEIRU: Opportunities to Advance Science and Public Health |
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Said Ismail, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
Middle East; Big Data from an Ancient Crossroad |
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Patrick Boon Ooi Tan, PRECISE
PRECISE: Opportunities to Advance Science and Public Health |
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Xiu Qiu, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center
The Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study Enables Generational Genetic Discoveries |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Dinner |
Ballroom |
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
| 8:00–9:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Individual Hotel |
| 8:30–9:00 AM |
Poster Setup |
Ballroom |
| 8:45–5:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Ballroom |
| 9:00–9:45 AM |
Keynote Address |
Auditorium |
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Michele Ramsay, University of Witwatersrand
African Genomes and Global Health - Developing African-Centric Data Resources |
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| 9:45–12:00 PM |
Beyond the Genome: Celebrating Scientifically Inclusive Genomics Research |
Auditorium |
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Segun Fatumo, Precision Healthcare University Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Harnessing African Genome Diversity to Advance Precision Medicine for all Populations |
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Hatoon Al Ali, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: An Expanded Reference for Middle Eastern Populations Improves GWAS |
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Mohamed Z Alimohamed, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Short Talk: Human Genetic Variations Across Populations in Tanzania |
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Nita Limdi †, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Short Talk: The Alabama Genomic Health Initiative: A Model for Genomic Medicine and Precision Population Health |
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| 10:00–10:20 AM |
Coffee Break |
Foyer |
| 12:00–1:00 PM |
Lunch |
Ballroom |
| 12:30–2:45 PM |
Poster Session 2 |
Ballroom |
| 2:45–4:30 PM |
Workshop: Data Analysis Tools for Research Studies |
Auditorium |
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* Naomi Allen, University of Oxford / UK Biobank
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* Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, National Institutes of Health
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Aditi Sudhakar, University of Oxford
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Ioana-Wilhelmina Lucinescu, University of Oxford
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Yangmei Li, University of Oxford
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Foyer |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Deep and Latent Phenotyping |
Auditorium |
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Aiden Doherty, University of Oxford
Value of Wearables in Large-Scale Population Studies |
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Melissa A. Haendel, University of North Carolina
Data Linkages, EMR Analyses |
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Rachel A Murphy, University of British Columbia
Short Talk: Enrichment of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath) Cohort with Comprehensive Phenotyping: Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, Blood and Stool for Metabolomics and Metagenomics |
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David Harley, Olink Proteomics
Short Talk: Genetically-Anchored Proteomics Prioritize Causal Drug Targets: A Multicohort Analysis of Protein Quantitative Trait Loci, MR, and Colocalization Evidence |
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Carly Rose †, Case Western Reserve University
Short Talk: Deep Phenotyping Afforded by Multi-Institutional Electronic Health Records in the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Reveals Opposing Effects of SARS-CoV- 2/COVID-19 Infection and Recombinant Zoster Vaccination on the Risk of Late-onset Alzheimer Disease in Older Patients |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Dinner |
Ballroom |
| 8:00–9:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Individual Hotel |
| 9:00–9:45 AM |
Keynote Address |
Auditorium |
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Catherine Kyobutungi, African Population And Health Research Center
From Knowing to Doing: Towards More Equitable Data Systems |
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| 9:45–12:00 PM |
Optimizing Strategies for Multidimensional, Longitudinal and Cross-Cohort Analysis |
Auditorium |
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Nicola Mulder, University of Cape Town
Analysis of Cohort Data from Africa |
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Loic Yengo, University of Queensland
Integrative Approaches for Accelerating Genomic Discovery in Understudied Populations |
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Martin McNamara, Sax Institute
45 and Up: Opportunities to Advance Science and Public Health |
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Alison Motsinger-Reif, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Short Talk: Connecting Health Outcomes Research and Data Systems (CHORDS): Delivering Scalable Environmental Data Infrastructure for Population and Precision Health |
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| 10:00–10:20 AM |
Coffee Break |
Foyer |
| 12:00–1:00 PM |
Roundtable Discussion: Innovative Approaches to Capacity Strengthening and Skills Retention to Promote and Implement Precision Medicine in Resourced Challenged Environments (or in underserved communities) |
Auditorium |
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* Michele Ramsay, University of Witwatersrand
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| 1:00–2:00 PM |
Lunch |
Ballroom |
| 2:00–3:00 PM |
Career Roundtable |
Foyer |
| 3:00–4:45 PM |
Symposia Spotlight 2: Application of AI/ML to Large Longitudinal Cohorts |
Auditorium |
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Tumai R Muzorewa †, Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Biosciences
Can Machine Learning Improve Cardiometabolic Disease Prediction in a Continental African Population? |
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Manuel A. Rivas †, Stanford University
Global Biobank Engine 2.0: AI Agents Across Genetic Browsers for Therapeutic Hypothesis Generation and Interpretation of Ultra-Rare Variants |
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Benoit Lehallier, Alkahest
Chronos Unlocks Population-Scale Dense Longitudinal Molecular Profiling for Early Disease Detection |
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Raghib Ali †, Our Future Health
Our Future Health: The World’s Largest and Most Diverse Consented Cohort and Resource for Population Health, Genomics and Prevention Research |
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Melissa Basford †, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Accelerating Study Startup and Lightening the Load: The All of Us Research Program Approach to Analysis Tooling |
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| 4:45–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Foyer |
| 5:00–6:45 PM |
Translation to Public Health Impact |
Auditorium |
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Lyndon Mitnaul, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
The Role of Pharma in Enabling Global Health using Population Health Studies |
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Mark I. McCarthy, Genentech
Translating Genetics and Genomics in Global Population Data Sets |
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Dame Sue Hill, National Health Service England
Talk Title to be Announced |
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| 6:45–7:00 PM |
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) |
Auditorium |
| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Dinner |
Ballroom |
