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Improving data sharing for global health research subject of CHEPA seminar
Principles developed to promote and guide data sharing across the Global Health Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be the subject of the CHEPA monthly seminar on May 16, presented by Claudia Emerson, senior scientist at the Sandra Rotman Centre, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and adjunct assistant professor in philosophy at McMaster University.
Recently, there has been a ‘scaling up’ in efforts and commitment to promote data sharing in public health as funding agencies strive to maximize the value derived from research outputs. Despite these efforts, broad data sharing remains a challenge in many research domains, owing to technical barriers, claims of data ownership, and privacy concerns, amongst other reasons.
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