Trust as moral currency: Perspectives of health researchers in sub-Saharan Africa on strategies to promote equitable data sharing.

ABSTRACT: Groundbreaking data-sharing techniques and quick access to stored research data from the African continent are highly beneficial to create diverse unbiased datasets to inform digital health technologies and artificial intelligence in healthcare. Yet health researchers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) experience individual and collective challenges that render them cautious and even hesitant to share data despite acknowledging the public health benefits of sharing. This qualitative study reports on the perspectives of health researchers regarding strategies to mitigate these challenges. In-depth interviews were conducted via Microsoft Teams with 16 researchers from 16 different countries across SSA between July 2022 and April 2023. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used to invite p

SUBMITTER: Brown Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11432837 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature