Equity Working Group

The Equity Working Group (EqWG) promotes and supports progress towards equity in the HCA. The EqWG seeks to engage the global community spanning diverse geographic and ethnic groups to drive inclusive representation and participation, and promote equal benefit from the HCA.

The EqWG’s initial focus is on empowerment to participate in the HCA through outreach, education, and training. The EqWG is co-chaired by Alex K Shalek (shalek@mit.edu), Partha Majumder (parmaj2023@gmail.com) and Musa Mhlanga (musahca@mhlangalab.org).

The HCA Equity Working Group has released several publications and statements on its goals and activities:

Regional Networks

In 2017 HCA began expanding its outreach and capacity-building efforts and has established three regional networks to date: HCA Asia, HCA Africa, and HCA Latin America. The goals of the regional networks are to help facilitate scientific and organizational efforts at the regional level.

Past Regional Meetings include:

October 17-20, 2022	HCA Africa: Introduction to Single Cell RNA-Seq Analysis (virtual)
October 06-07, 2022	Latin America Symposium (virtual
March 21-22, 2022	HCA Africa Symposium (virtual)
November 15-6, 2021	HCA Asia Meeting (virtual)
October 22-23, 2020	HCA Asia Meeting (virtual)
September 24-25, 2020	HCA Latin America Meeting (virtual)
November 10-11, 2019	HCA Asia Meeting, Singapore
November 11-13, 2018	HCA Asia Meeting, Republic of Korea
November 30 – December 1, 2017	HCA Asia Meeting, Japan

Training and outreach activities

Building on past training and outreach activities, HCA plans to host several workshops over the next three years with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Past training and outreach activities include:

January 17-22, 2022	Single Cell Transcriptomics (India, virtual)
April 26 – May 7, 2021	Single Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis Workshop (Latin America, virtual)
October 30, 2019	HCA Equity Meeting, Addis Ababa
September 10, 2019	HCA Equity Roadshow, Brazil