Brian in Sudan
2018 East Africa Open Science Tour: Khartoum, Sudan



I am committed to being an active participant in the open science, biomedical research, and applied research ethics communities. Here is a list of community activities I have been involved with:

Personal top 10 list (rev. chronological order)




The rest of the best (rev. chronological order)

  • Hackathon facilitator. Multi-Omics in Mothers and Infants (MOMI) consortia annual meeting. 2019 October 09

  • Invited trainer. Grand Challenge Explorations India: Tools that enable distributed research and collaboration. 2019 March 15

  • Invited judge. Technovation Tunisia regional pitch. 2018 May 05

  • Invited contributor, Apple ResearchKit blog. Participant-centered research in a rocky data sharing climate. 2016 November 30

  • Invited expert. Mozilla open leaders mentorship program. 2016-present

  • Mentor. Mozilla mentorship program: Open leadership training series. 2016

  • Invited member. Open leadership cohort, Mozilla Science Labs. 2016

  • Workshop co-organizer. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB): Applied knowledge building networks for translation - how to use DREAM Challenges and the Synapse platform as a research strategy. 2015 July 11

  • Member. NCI Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP) outreach and education committee. 2012-2014

  • Member. The Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship (FORCE11). 2014-present

  • Public signatory. access2research petition to ‘Require free, timely access over the Internet to journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research’ through https://petitions.whitehouse.gov. 2012

  • Public response. White House OSTP request for information on public access to digital data. 2012 January 12