MSF opens up its medical data to humanitarian ends | MSF UK

"Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has taken another bold step, becoming the first humanitarian organisation to commit to a policy of sharing its medical data, for the purposes of public health research.

MSF recently announced its intentions to allow researchers access to the clinical and research data it collects, as part of monitoring and evaluating its medical humanitarian programmes. The policy aims to encourage as wide an audience as possible to make use of the MSF data, while respecting strict ethical principles to ensure patients’ privacy and medical confidentiality."