The Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness, an international network of major research funding organisations, recently published a roadmap to data sharing. The roadmap provides a guide on how funders can accelerate research data sharing by the scientists they fund. This includes data management, improving data policies, building trust and aligning tools for data sharing. The work done in West Africa shows that global data sharing can work. Building partnershipsCollaboration and data sharing has become a serious focus in the fight against public health emergencies.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 08, 2019 08:48 UTC