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=== Mad Price Ball (Open Humans Foundation) === [[File:Mad-portrait-photo-201910.jpg|200px|thumb|Mad eagerly tearing apart [https://twitter.com/madprime/status/979833858039271425 another terrible blockchain idea].]] I am Executive Director of Open Humans Foundation and co-founder of [https://www.openhumans.org Open Humans]. My research involvement is more "meta" these days: I help others do it. With Open Humans, we try to enable a new approach for research in health and human subjects research, focusing on personal data. Our work is generally "open" and strives to enable peer production, enabling individuals to create and share tools for getting personal data, analyzing it, and potentially contributing it to aggregate projects (from patient groups to citizen scientists, as well as traditional academic studies). I'm also a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow (alum) and a member of the BoD of MyData Global. Open Humans was inspired by my dual histories in genomics research and free/open culture. My PhD was in biotech and postdoc work involved running George Church's Personal Genome Project, which invited people to donate genome & health data to science by making it public β where I learned a lot about personal data and human subjects research. I'm also familiar with free/open culture folks for well over a decade, contributing here and there; one of my favorite past projects was helping create an offline copy of Wikipedia for OLPC distributed in Peru & Uruguay (my role was creating the article list, mostly based on traffic & connectivity data). I live in San Diego, but online you can find me on [http://twitter.com/madprime @madprime on Twitter], in the [http://slackin.openhumans.org Open Humans slack group], and sometimes IRC (madprime) β or reach me by email (mad) at openhumans.org. </div> <div style="clear:both;">
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