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SUMMARY:DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the an
 alysis - Professor Paul Burton\, Professor of Data Science for Health\, Ne
 wcastle University
DTSTART:20170519T120000Z
DTEND:20170519T130000Z
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CONTACT:Rosa Attwood
DESCRIPTION:Research in modern biomedicine and social science requires sam
 ple sizes so large that they can often only be achieved through a pooled c
 o-analysis of data from several studies. But the pooling of information fr
 om individuals in a central database that may be queried by researchers ra
 ises important ethico-legal questions and can be controversial. These refl
 ect important societal and professional concerns about privacy\, confident
 iality and intellectual property. DataSHIELD provides a novel technologica
 l solution that circumvents some of the most basic challenges in facilitat
 ing the access of researchers and other healthcare professionals to indivi
 dual-level data. Commands are sent from a central analysis computer (AC) t
 o several data computers (DCs) that store the data to be co-analysed. Each
  DC is located at one of the studies contributing data to the analysis. Th
 e data sets are analysed simultaneously but in parallel. The separate para
 llelized analyses are linked by non-disclosive summary statistics and comm
 ands transmitted back and forth between the DCs and the AC. Technical impl
 ementation of DataSHIELD employs a specially modified R statistical enviro
 nment linked to an Opal database deployed behind the computer firewall of 
 each DC. Analysis is then controlled through a standard R environment at t
 he AC. DataSHIELD is currently being developed as a flexible\, easily exte
 ndable\, open-source way to provide secure data access to a single study o
 r data repository as well as for secure co-analysis of several studies.\n\
 nChaired by Dr Nita Forouhi\, Programme Leader and Public Health Physician
 \, MRC Epidemiology Unit.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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