Sharing research data to improve public health in Africa : a workshop summary / Mary Ellen O'Connell and Thomas J. Plewes, rapporteurs, Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Material type: TextPublisher: Washington (DC) : National Academies Press (US), 2015Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (ix, 89 pages)) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780309378109
- 0309378109
- Political planning -- Africa
- Public health -- Africa
- Public Health
- Biomedical Research
- Information Dissemination
- International Cooperation
- Africa
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- Political planning
- Public health
- Africa
- 362.1 23
- RA427
- 2016 A-664
- WA 300 HA1
Title from PDF title page.
Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public health. Although sharing data is the norm in some research fields, sharing of data in public health is not as firmly established. In March 2015, the National Research Council organized an international conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, to explore the benefits of and barriers to sharing research data within the African context. The workshop brought together public health researchers and epidemiologists primarily from the African continent, along with selected international experts, to talk about the benefits and challenges of sharing data to improve public health, and to discuss potential actions to guide future work related to public health research data sharing. Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health in Africa summarizes the presentations and discussions from this workshop.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Establishing equitable terms for data sharing -- Exploring the ethical imperative for data sharing -- Enabling data discoverability, linkage, and re-use -- Next steps: maximizing the use of data to improve public health -- Appendix A: workshop agenda -- Appendix B: participants.
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