With an enormous thank you to all our candidates – and the members that voted –  I’m thrilled to share our three new members of the Board of Directors for Open Humans Foundation!

Community Seat: Dana Lewis

As the first winner of the Community Seat election, we’re thrilled to have Dana representing the interests of the Open Humans community. Dana is a pioneer in open source and health, including her leadership of the inspiring OpenAPS community and work connecting this community to research. You can read more about this – and how Dana has used Open Humans – in her post on our blog: “Why Open Humans is an essential part of my work to change the future of healthcare research”

Full vote tallies of the community election were as follows: Dana M Lewis (92), Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek (60), Embriette Hyde (53), James M Turner (33), Katarzyna Wac (28), Richard Sprague (23), Chris Gorgolewski (16)

We are also thrilled to introduce two new board-elected directors!

Board-elected Seat: James Turner

James is one of the earliest and most active members of the Open Humans community, and has been profiled on our blog as well! Having joined through participation in the Personal Genome Project, James went on to create some of the first projects in our site – including an Apple Health import app that has been used in downstream academic research. In addition to his long commitment to this community, James brings valuable practical experience in managing nonprofit organizations, having created and managed his own charitable 501(c)3 for several years.

Board-elected Seat: Chris Gorgolewski

Chris is an academic in the field of neuroscience, interested in expanding the use of Open Humans among traditional researchers. Chris has promoted neurological research data sharing through his work with Neurovault, OpenNeuro, and reusable data sharing language for consent forms. Chris brings to the board a new facet of research, and an interest in promoting the use of Open Humans in studies — including the return of valuable data to participants to enable both individual access as well as re-use in new research.

Finally, I want to thank the candidates who volunteered to become members of our board. Candidates took time to communicate with us and with the community, and we are honored by the visions you shared with us. There were more excellent candidates than we had seats to fill! But there will be seats again, and we hope you continue to be part of Open Humans as some of our most brilliant members, colleagues, and advocates.