1) Human health data can be sensitive as it contains personally identifiable information that could harm or discriminate individuals. Sharing such data requires careful planning and consideration of privacy and ethics.
2) Key factors in responsibly sharing health data include obtaining informed consent from participants, removing or modifying data to protect privacy where possible, gaining ethics approval, and only using data for its originally intended purpose without additional consent.
3) Guidelines from funders and publishers encourage sharing data from publicly funded research for the benefit of the wider community, as long as privacy and ethics are upheld. Institutions also have policies regarding retaining and sharing research data.
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What are health-y data and why are they tricky to publish?
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?Human data is data collected from or about individuals
?Health data includes information about their health (or
others¨)
?Today, we focus on health data that may also be sensitive C
individual-level health data (i.e., not aggregated)
8. What makes health data sensitive?
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Personal (identifiable) information
+ potential for harm or discrimination
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Privacy Act (1988, s6)
Personal information
+ one or more of: health info, genetic, biometric, political
opinion, certain group membership
= Sensitive information
Legally: Privacy Law
What¨s required?
Cannot be used beyond original purpose of collection
without consent (same for SA Info Priv Principles)
10. Ethically
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`any data that contain information that can be used to
identify an individual and introduce a risk of
discrimination, harm, or unwanted attention.¨
11. Ethically
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What¨s required?
?Informed consent
?Avoid harm (= remove/minimise sensitivity)
\ Where possible, modify data to protect privacy
\ i.e. Confidentialising data
\ Conditions around access to data
?Ethics Committee approval
12. Why? Sticky carrots!
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? International funders, e.g. National Institutes of Health
? Local funders, e.g. NHMRC and ARC
? Publishers, e.g. PLOS, BMJ
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/sharing.htm
https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-funding/policy/nhmrc-statement-data-sharing
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/data\availability; ttp://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2373
..encourages data sharing and
providing access to data and
other research outputs ´ arising
from NHMRC supported research
NHMRC Statement on Data Sharing (April 2015):
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`´the findings of research funded with public funding should be
made available to the wider community´¨
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? Your institutional policies
? National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research
Future use C s2 `Consent to future use of data and tissue in research¨.
NHMRC/ARC Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research -
s2 guidelines retain data (not destroy!)
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?Depends on
? Sensitivity (identifiability)
? Participant consent
? Ethics approval
How do I share health data?
19. Putting it all
together
ANDS Guide to
Publishing and Sharing
Sensitive Data
http://www.ands.org.au/datamanage
ment/sensitivedata.html
If you can¨t share
the data itself,
publish metadata
so its discoverable
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?How `open¨ can I be (where/how I publish)?
? Who owns the data?
? Licensing
Ownership, and thus data sharing, should be negotiated
between all parties involved (as early as possible)
How do I share health data?
24. Take away
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? It can be done!
? Be a scout: plan ahead
? Before publishing, ask about:
participant consent? ethics approval
(from all parties)? modify data first?
? (For later) Conditional access? Or a
public and restricted version of data?
Editor's Notes
#5: `records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that comprise research observations, findings or outcomes, including primary materials and analysed data¨
(Monash University 2010)
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#17: Hang on a minute C its ethical too share data? Hmm, how does this site with issues of privacy and rules that govern research with people? (HREC approval etc. feeds into this)
I make this point because it does feel like a conflict C and rightly so C and a question worth spending a minute on
#18: This is a clip from Prof. Michael Martin C Chair of two HRECs at the ANU C talking about how sharing is actually consistent with values of human research.
#20: So what does this all look like when we string it altogether, and put it into practice?
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