Rachel Giacomantonio

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Rachel is the Communications Manager for the Genomics and Global Health Programme, a role which supports MalariaGEN and the Centre for Genomics and Global Health. She joined the team in July 2012, and is based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford. Her focus is on ensuring that the scientific, collaborative and educational activities of the Programme are appropriately communicated to funders, opinion-formers and stakeholders in the genomics and global health community, in order to support the Programme’s strategic objectives.
Prior to joining the team, Rachel worked in a similar capacity with the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN). Before this, she held various positions in communications and programme management with the World Agroforestry Centre (Nairobi, Kenya) and Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). She holds an HonBSc from University of Toronto, where she spent her summers studying par homologues in M. smegmatis.
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+44 (0)1865 287566


