How much of our health information is accessible to academic researchers? What are the benefits of large-scale data collection in the fight against various diseases? What are the risks? What are the ethical implications?
Join Edinburgh Skeptics as we tackle such questions with Dr. Gemma Phillips, of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Population Health Sciences, and have your say as well!
The Farr Institute @ Scotland is part of a UK-wide network of university centres involved in doing research on publicly generated datasets, focussing on public health and medical research. In Scotland the Farr Institute involves researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Dundee and Aberdeen. Gemma is currently fronting the public engagement work for the Farr Institute @ Scotland the with support from Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Carol Porteous, all working at the University of Edinburgh. They work to support researchers within the Farr Institute to get public feedback on their work and to engage the public more generally in the research agenda and activities at the Institute
The team from the Farr Institute are interested in your views on their work and are planning to run similar events to this in the future. They will have a couple of people taking notes at the meeting for them to consider your responses after the evening is finished. No-one's names will be written down and nothing they say will be directly quoted anywhere.
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