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FHS Research Seminar – Dr. Emma Griffiths – Pandemic Viral Surveillance in Canada and Around the World: Strategies for Data Harmonization and Integration to Fight COVID-19
November 25, 2021 - 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Pandemic viral surveillance in Canada and around the world: strategies for data harmonization and integration to fight COVID-19
Dr. Emma Griffiths
Centre for Infectious Disease and One Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
Abstract
Public health laboratories around the world have used genomics to track SARS-CoV-2 transmission and outbreaks, identify variants of concern, and develop tests and vaccines. Contextual data (clinical/epidemiological and methods information) is critical for interpreting sequence data and analytical results, however the way it is encoded greatly impacts the way it can be understood, combined, and used. Our lab has developed tools and data standards to better enable harmonization and integration of this information for public health surveillance in Canada and globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools are also being repurposed for other pathogens, and helping to shape the pathogen contextual data ecosystem needed to improve data sharing during health emergencies.
Bio
Dr. Emma Griffiths completed her PhD at McMaster University studying how indels (sequence inserts and deletions) can be used to study bacterial evolution. Since then she has used genetics approaches to understand how pathogens work. Now she uses informatics approaches to help public health agencies track and control those pathogens.
- This seminar will be held virtually over Zoom and recorded: https://sfu.zoom.us/j/69219598229?pwd=ZnZCVnR4NmNBbnpyc1FQbDVQWFFVUT09
Local Dial-In: 778-907-2071
Meeting ID: 692 1959 8229 Password: 314185 - Please visit the FHS Seminar Series webpage for further details: http://www.sfu.ca/fhs/news-events/events/seminar-series.html
- The SFU FHS Research Seminar Series is open to the SFU and the broader research community.
- The SFU FHS Research Seminar Series is an Accredited Small Group Learning by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
