GA4GH: Heidi Rehm

The board of directors of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has elected Heidi Rehm to a three-year term as chair, effective in January. Rehm, chief genomics officer at Massachusetts General Hospital and codirector of medical and population genetics at the Broad Institute, will replace Ewan Birney, who has chaired the alliance since November 2016. Rehm has been GA4GH vice chair since 2018.