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Data Access Committee Review Standards (DACReS) Toolkit

Provides guiding principles and procedural standards for data access committees

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Data sharing has the potential to accelerate scientific discoveries and improve medical care. However, it is also important to prevent data misuse and exploitation. Data access committees (DACs) can help manage the data access process by reviewing requests and deciding whether or not to grant access. To ensure that data access requests are met with consistent review criteria, the GA4GH Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS) is developing a Data Access Committee Review Standards (DACReS) Toolkit.

The Toolkit contains:

A diagram depicting four ways that DACReS can improve data sharing.
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A diagram depicting four ways that DACReS can improve data sharing.

Benefits

  • Provides guidance for data access committees, aiming to harmonise best practices across institutions
  • Promotes more efficient, secure, and consistent procedures for data access
  • Builds greater trust in the data access committee review process across institutions, repositories, and researchers

Target users

Data access committees

Announcements

Date Title
5 December 2024 The GA4GH Model Data Access Agreement (DAA) Clauses have been approved as an official GA4GH product
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