WS 2

The exponential increase in data generation and improved data management offer exciting opportunities for research, surveillance, and decision support for disease management. However, both providing and receiving access to the data needed for a particular purpose can turn into a minefield: finding the data, legal and ethical constraints, management of privacy issues, national and international regulations, maintaining data security, technical issues of interoperability, data exchange formats, standardisation, integration, ontologies, ownership, automation… The barriers can be complex and daunting, and the consequences of poor practices can be disastrous.

This workshop will build on participants’ experiences to provide a deeper understanding of the issues around data governance and stewardship. The facilitators will lead participants through this complex environment and examine effective ways to improve the way we access, manage, integrate and share epidemiological data. It will include consideration of the different reasons we need data, different data sources with the goal of providing participants with an effective toolbox and solutions to address the most common challenges faced by veterinary epidemiologists.