GISAID

GISAID

Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data
Formation	December 19, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-12-19)[1][2][3][4]
Type	Nonprofit organization[5]
Purpose	Global health, research
Headquarters	Munich, Germany[6][5]
Method	Donations and grants
Key people	Peter Bogner (president)[7] Jörg Paura and Christoph Wetzler (executive board members)[5] Ron Fouchier (co-chair, Scientific Advisory Council)[8]
Website	https://gisaid.org

GISAID (/ˈɡɪseɪd/), the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data,^[9] previously the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data,^[10][11] is a global science initiative established in 2008 to provide access to genomic data of influenza viruses. The database was expanded to include the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic,^[12][13] as well as other pathogens. The database has been described as "the world's largest repository of COVID-19 sequences".^[14] GISAID facilitates genomic epidemiology and real-time surveillance to monitor the emergence of new COVID-19 viral strains across the planet.^[15]

Since its establishment as an alternative to sharing avian influenza data^[16] via conventional public-domain archives,^[17] GISAID has facilitated the exchange of outbreak genome data^[17] during the H1N1 pandemic^[18][19] in 2009, the H7N9 epidemic^[20][21] in 2013, the COVID-19 pandemic^[22][23] and the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak.^[24]