TDR has contributed a chapter on research and data sharing during health emergencies to a new open access eBook entitled Principles and practice of emergency research response. This work aligns with TDR’s new strategic priority area of epidemics and outbreaks.
The textbook, through learning modules, elucidates standards, guidelines, and practical considerations to improve future research response. The intended audience includes medical and public health students as well as practitioners in the field.
“I believe researchers must be on the frontlines of any outbreak,” writes Bill Gates in the book’s foreward. “It is the only way we can effectively identify, track, and stop a novel disease when it enters the human population.”
TDR and WHO’s Health Ethics and Governance Unit collaborated on the book’s seventh chapter, which explores various aspects of data sharing, including mechanisms and legal frameworks for sharing research data.
“We must be prepared to conduct emergency response research far more rapidly than the ‘normal’ pace of scientific research,” Anthony Fauci and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus write in the book’s introduction. “Principles and practices of emergency research response gathers what we have learned over the last decade to accelerate research response to infectious disease outbreaks, and how to better prepare for the next outbreak.”
For more information, please contact Dr Rob Terry.