Fostering Open Science in Global Health

This Workshop aims to address collaboration and open dialogue in Global Health related research using the example of data and results sharing during public health emergencies. In February 2016, the World Health Organization has declared that the clusters of brain-damaged babies born in Brazil – linked to but not yet proven to be caused by the Zika virus – constitute a public health emergency of international concern. This became the first test to the proposed WHO global norm of transparent sharing of data and results during public health emergencies – only weeks after publishing the results of this consultation.

Key questions to be discussed:

• What can we learn from past public health emergencies?
• How can open research approaches improve the management of global health crisis?
• What is the role of each actor in this area of open science/research?