Global Health Summit 2026
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The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom, 23 March - 24 March 2026
This is our first annual Health Summit and will bring together key opinion leaders from around the world to discuss the integration of multi-dimensional genomics into precision healthcare.
The Summit will explore how genomics and multiomics can transform global health outcomes through representation, innovation, and collaboration. Together, we’ll discuss how science, technology, and policy can align to create lasting impact across communities worldwide.
Confirmed speakers:
- Tobias Rausch, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
- Nicola Mulder, University of Cape Town
- Tjitske Kleefstra, Erasmus MC
- Nickhill Bhakta, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Rory Collins, UK Biobank
- Ewan Birney, EMBL
- Nathalie Kingston, University of Cambridge
- Danny E. Miller, University of Washington
Please note that this is an in-person event by invitation only. To enquire about attendance please contact events@nanoporetech.com.
Why join us?
- Build long-term stakeholder networks to ensure alignment with national and global health innovation missions
- Empower the local communities to further close the gaps in representation and diversity to achieve the goals of inclusive precision health globally
- Help accelerate innovation and clinical integration of research tools
- Gain policy insight to inform implementation, reimbursement, and funding decisions
- Collaborate with global partners
- Help shape shared roadmaps and participate in ongoing annual engagement
- Enjoy networking with peers
Agenda
9:00 am - 6:00 pm GMT | Agenda (subject to change) | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Registration/refreshments | |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Session 1 - Empowering local populations, globally | |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Welcome from Oxford Nanopore Technologies | Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Keynote speaker | details to follow |
9:45 am - 10:00 am | Unleashing the potential of African genomes | Nicola Mulder, University of Cape Town |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Understanding structural variants using long-read genomics | Tobias Rausch, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Scaling pangenomics in Asia: from population diversity to high-quality X-omic reference frameworks | Shuhua Xu, Fudan University |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Panel discussion - Current state of population studies across the world | André G. Uitterlinden, Erasmus MC, Catalina Lopez Correa, Global Gene, Canada/Colombia Leandro Machado Colli, University of São Paulo, Shuhua Xu, Fudan University |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Networking Break | |
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Session 2 - Multiomics to tackle healthcare challenges (complex diseases, cancer, and rare disease) | |
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | details to follow | details to follow |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Genomics, imaging, and AI — three transformative technologies for basic research, clinical research, and clinical practice | Ewan Birney, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) |
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Panel discussion - At scale multiomic translational research for future clinical implementation | Nathalie Kingston, University of Cambridge Rory Collins, UK Biobank |
1:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Lunch | |
2:20 pm - 3:35 pm | Session 3 – Evidence of impact (increase of diagnostic yield) | |
2:20 pm - 2:35 pm | Long-read genome sequencing for critically ill patients facilitates ultrarapid diagnostics and urgent clinical decision making | Tjitske Kleefstra, Erasmus MC |
2:35 pm - 2:50 pm | Beyond DNA sequence: applications of methylation in common and rare disease | Danny E. Miller, University of Washington |
2:50 pm - 3:05 pm | Democratizing access of diagnostic genomics to improve survival from catastrophic diseases of childhood globally | Nickhill Bhakta, St Jude Children's Research Hospital |
3:05 pm - 3:35 pm | Panel discussion - Increasing diagnostic yield in rare disease | Matt Brown, Genomics England, Olaf Riess, Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, Marilyn Li, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine |
3:35 pm - 4:40 pm | Networking break | |
4:40 pm - 5:10 pm | Keynote speaker | details to follow |
5:10 pm - 6:00 pm | Next steps and closing remarks | Oxford Nanopore Technologies hosted |
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Networking drinks reception |
