Public Health Wales NHS Trust (PHW) is the national public health authority for Wales. PHW works to protect and improve health and well-being and reduce health inequalities for the people of Wales. PHW is leading the national response to COVID-19 in Wales. PHW operates diagnostic laboratories across Wales and has been providing SARS-COV-2 testing in Wales. In addition, PHW epidemiology teams have been providing support across Wales to track cases and support management of the outbreak. Sequencing of Welsh samples is being undertaken by the Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU). PenGU was formally launched in 2018, and provides an accredited sequencing environment for a range of clinical pathogen genomics services for the whole of Wales.
The Pathogen Genomics team in Public Health Wales contribute to COG-UK by sequencing and analysing Welsh SARS-COV-2 cases. Data is fed back in real time to clinical colleagues across the NHS in Wales as well a contributing to outbreak management and planning within the Welsh NHS and Welsh Government. In addition to sequencing samples, the team provide bioinformatics support to build production-ready pipelines for processing samples, supporting the development of systems on CLIMB for consortium use and lead efforts to enable metadata sharing across the UK.
Contributors:
- Dr Sally Corden, Pathogen Genomics Unit lead
- Dr Thomas Connor, Reader, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University and Consultant Bioinformatician/Pathogen Bioinformatics Lead, Public Health Wales NHS Trust [GoogleScholar] [ORCID]
- Dr Catherine Moore, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Wales Specialist Virology Centre
- Dr Simon Cottrell, Principle Epidemiologist, Communicable and Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Joanne Watkins, Laboratory Senior, Pathogen Genomics Unit
- Dr Matthew Bull, Senior Bioinformatician, PHW Pathogen Bioinformatics [Google Scholar]
- Dr Sara Rey, Bioinformatician, PHW Pathogen Bioinformatics
- Alexander Adams
- Amy Gaskin, Bioinformatician & Genomic Epidemiologist in the Pathogen Genomics Unit at Public Health Wales[LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
- Bree Gatica-Wilcox, Specialist Biomedical Scientist, Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU), Public Health Wales
- Dr Chris Williams, Consultant Epidemiologist [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
- Elen De Lacy, Public Health Research and Development Manager at Public Health Wales [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
- Ember Hilvers, Epidemiological Scientist at Public Health Wales & Aneurin Bevan University Health Board [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
- Dr Hibo Asad, Hospital Epidemiologist [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
- Dr Jason Coombes, Healthcare Scientist at the Pathogen Genomics Unit (PENGU) [LinkedIn]
- Joanne Watkins, Senior Biomedical Scientist at NHS Wales [LinkedIn] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
- Joel Southgate, Biomedical Scientist (Bioinformatics) [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
- Jonathan Evans, Lead Biomedical Scientist, Wales Specialist Virology Centre
- Laura Gifford, Department of Virology [Researchgate]
- Lauren Gilbert, Higher healthcare support worker [LinkedIn]
- Lee Graham, Healthcare Scientist at the Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU) [ORCHID] [Researchgate]
- Dr Mari Morgan, [Researchgate]
- Dr Nicole Pacchiarini, Bioinformatician at Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU) [LinkedIN] [ORCID]
- Dr Summer Kumziene-Summerhayes
- Sophie Jones, [Researchgate]
- Alec Birchley, Biomedical Scientist at Public Health Wales, Pathogen Genomics Unit [LinkedIN]
- Dr Caoimhe McKerr, Epidemiologist [LinkedIN]
- Fatima Downing, Project Manager [LinkedIN]
- Malorie Perry [LinkedIN]
- Dr Noel Craine, Research Scientist
- Sarah Taylor, Healthcare Scientist, Pathogen Genomics [LinkedIN]
- Sue Edwards
- PHW Pathogen Genomics laboratory and Bioinformatics teams
