Special issue: Ethics and sharing individual-level health research data from low and middle income settings
In this issue, University of Oxford researchers Susan Bull and Michael Parker serve as special editors of five studies they have conducted with partners in Kenya, South Africa, India, Thailand, and Vietnam, respectively, to investigate the views of researchers and gatekeepers of research concerning the initiation of biomedical data sharing in their country. Their responses, although positive about the general concept, were more skeptical about sharing of their own data, not unlike the responses of persons in Western countries who have not shared data…