Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health in Africa A Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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On March 29–31, 2015, representatives of the Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institute on Aging, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization, INDEPTH network, South Africa Medical Research Council, and Academy of Sciences of South Africa organized a workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa, to explore issues related to sharing research data to improve public health in an African context. Hosted by the South African Medical Research Council and the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, 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.
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Funders of public health research, including members of the Public Health Research Data Forum, have begun requiring data sharing. Similarly, the United States has begun implementing a national requirement that data generated by federally funded research be shared.
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• Data sharing is a crucial element of the research continuum. Sharing data at the end of a research project is an essential part of the process.
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