Including all voices in international data-sharing governance

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  • Kaye, Jane
    • Other Affiliation: Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies, NDPH, University of Oxford
  • Terry, Sharon F
    • Other Affiliation: Genetic Alliance USA
  • Juengst, Eric
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, UNC Center for Bioethics
  • Coy, Sarah
    • Other Affiliation: Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies, NDPH, University of Oxford
  • Harris, Jennifer R
    • Other Affiliation: Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Chalmers, Don
    • Other Affiliation: Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
  • Dove, Edward S
    • Other Affiliation: School of Law, University of Edinburgh
  • Budin-Ljøsne, Isabelle
    • Other Affiliation: Cohort Studies, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Adebamowo, Clement
    • Other Affiliation: Center for Bioethics and Research, Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Ogbe, Emilomo
    • Other Affiliation: International Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Gent
  • Bezuidenhout, Louise
    • Other Affiliation: Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
  • Morrison, Michael
    • Other Affiliation: Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies, NDPH, University of Oxford
  • Minion, Joel T
    • Other Affiliation: Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University
  • Murtagh, Madeleine J
    • Other Affiliation: Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University
  • Minari, Jusaku
    • Other Affiliation: Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
  • Teare, Harriet
    • Other Affiliation: Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies, NDPH, University of Oxford
  • Isasi, Rosario
    • Other Affiliation: Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Department of Human Genetics, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
  • Kato, Kazuto
    • Other Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
  • Rial-Sebbag, Emmanuelle
    • Other Affiliation: National Institute for Research and Health (Inserm), UMR 1027 Inserm, Toulouse University
  • Marshall, Patricia
    • Other Affiliation: Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, TA200, Case Western Reserve University
  • Koenig, Barbara
    • Other Affiliation: UCSF School of Nursing, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco
  • Cambon-Thomsen, Anne
    • Other Affiliation: CNRS, Toulouse, France; Joint research unit on epidemiology and public health, Inserm (National Institute for Health and Medical Research) and University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
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  • Background Governments, funding bodies, institutions, and publishers have developed a number of strategies to encourage researchers to facilitate access to datasets. The rationale behind this approach is that this will bring a number of benefits and enable advances in healthcare and medicine by allowing the maximum returns from the investment in research, as well as reducing waste and promoting transparency. As this approach gains momentum, these data-sharing practices have implications for many kinds of research as they become standard practice across the world. Main text The governance frameworks that have been developed to support biomedical research are not well equipped to deal with the complexities of international data sharing. This system is nationally based and is dependent upon expert committees for oversight and compliance, which has often led to piece-meal decision-making. This system tends to perpetuate inequalities by obscuring the contributions and the important role of different data providers along the data stream, whether they be low- or middle-income country researchers, patients, research participants, groups, or communities. As research and data-sharing activities are largely publicly funded, there is a strong moral argument for including the people who provide the data in decision-making and to develop governance systems for their continued participation. Conclusions We recommend that governance of science becomes more transparent, representative, and responsive to the voices of many constituencies by conducting public consultations about data-sharing addressing issues of access and use; including all data providers in decision-making about the use and sharing of data along the whole of the data stream; and using digital technologies to encourage accessibility, transparency, and accountability. We anticipate that this approach could enhance the legitimacy of the research process, generate insights that may otherwise be overlooked or ignored, and help to bring valuable perspectives into the decision-making around international data sharing.
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  • Human Genomics. 2018 Mar 07;12(1):13
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