News

Ethics

Eva Winkler appointed to German Ethical Council

We congratulate Professor Eva C. Winkler, a member of our Board of Directors and lead of the GHGA ELSI work stream, on her prestigious new role in the German Ethics Council (Ethikrat)! Read more on the NCT website.

Learn more

New Draft Policy for Genomics: WHO Invites Comments

GHGA welcomes the new WHO policy for Genome Data Access, Use and Sharing and follows the call for comments in this community effort.

Learn more

Maximising potential: treatment data for research

In a statement, scientists call for a shift in the way data from medical routine care are handled and for a legal basis to be created for standard data use without consent, but with an opt-out solution.

Learn more

NFDI ELSI Workshop with GHGA participation

ELSA Workshop "Anonymization and Data Trusteeship" in Berlin with participation of GHGA Director Prof Eva Winkler, who gave a presentation on 'Ethical Trust Concepts in Medicine and their Implications'.

Learn more

GHGA Legacy Consent Toolkit now available

With a new App, GHGA aims to guide researchers when assessing original, pre-GDPR consent to see if it is sufficient to permit new data processing.

Learn more

Cancer patients want to support research with clinical data

Cancer patients show a high willingness to make their clinical data available for research purposes, according to a new study. Patients demand high data security, best use of data, and information about research results obtained from clinical data.

Learn more

GHGA Modular Consent Toolkit now available

GHGA’s first whitepaper contains and explains different consent modules to be integrated into existing consent documents. These will enable data sharing for secondary research via GHGA.

Learn more

GHGA launches patient involvement efforts

Within a participatory study, GHGA will hold deliberative democratic forums exploring the patients’ perspectives and which concrete roles patients could take within GHGA governance.

Learn more

Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor appointed to the European Group on Ethics

Congratulations to our GHGA co-spokesperson and legal expert Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor who was appointed as a new member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE).

Learn more

Subscribe here!

To stay up to date with the developments around GHGA, news and events please sign up for our newsletter.