Working Group 1 is developing a long-term plan to shape political level involvement in GMI development at the global, regional and national level.
The first goal is to establish a functional link to political level decision makers in several countries or regional, international organizations.
The second goal is to initiate a coherent system for international discussion of relevant themes, e.g. global health diplomacy, coordination between different sectors, sensitivity of metadata, open access database of genome sequences, sharing of strains over borders, intellectual property rights (IPR), and funding.
See GMI roadmap from May 2016: GMI working group status/work plan
GMI working group statusGMI envisions a global system of DNA genome databases for microbial and infectious disease identification and diagnostics. Such a system will benefit those tackling individual problems at the frontline, clinicians, veterinarian, etc., as well as policy-makers, regulators, and industry.
By enabling access to this global resource, a professional response on health threats will be within reach of all countries with basic laboratory infrastructure.
