Many scientific journals now require that data be openly shared and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and funders of these Lung Health Team Grants believes that research data collected through the use of public funds should be responsibly and securely managed and be, where ethical, legal and commercial obligations allow, available for reuse by others. Learn more about Tri-Agency Research Data Mangement here.
To align practice with these policies it is essential that prospective studies include explicit language in consent forms to seek permission for coded data/samples to be shared with others for secondary data analyses.