Full Name
Dr. Charles Rotimi
Job title
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Affiliation
National Institutes of Health
Speaker bio
Charles Nohuoma Rotimi is the Director of the Trans-National Institutes of Health (NIH) center for research in genomics and global health. He works to ensure that population genetics include genomes from African populations and founded the African Society of Human Genetics in 2003. Rotimi was instrumental in the launch of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) with the NIH and Wellcome Trust. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
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