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January 2011
Group of public health research funders calls for widespread sharing of data
January 11, 2011 -- Public health research data should be shared more widely in the scientific community in order to make progress in public health worldwide, a group of 17 health-funding agencies and groups said recently in a joint statement. In the joint statement, the funders also pledged to work together to support “timely and responsible” sharing of data that were gathered during public health studies. “We, as funders of health research, intend to work together to increase the availability to the scientific community of the research data we fund that is collected from populations for the purpose of health research, and to promote the efficient use of those data to accelerate improvements in public health,” the statement says.
Signatories of the statement include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Britain's Medical Research Council, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the World Bank. Other signatories include the Hewlett Foundation, Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, France's National Institute for Health and Medical Research, and the German Research Foundation. See the links below for more details.
