Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

This guidance is for researchers who need to prepare data for deposit in accordance with the Joint statement on sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak.

This decision tree is designed to help alert researchers to situations where human participant data would need to be anonymized or de-identified before being deposited into a repository. It relies heavily on the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2018) which addresses consent and secondary use of information for research purposes.

This guidance is intended to help researchers minimize disclosure risk when sharing data collected from human participants.

This document is designed to help researchers select a repository that will provide immediate and long-term access to their COVID-19 data.