The Global Health Network is delighted to share a new BMJ opinion piece arguing that data sharing must evolve towards data sovereignty.

This is the ‘why’ as a precursor to a more substantive paper being developed by a global task force that will be setting out the ‘how we can do this’. Collaborative Data Sovereignty stands to be a powerful and progressive mechanism that can help teams, countries and programmes move to strong local research leadership and independence.

Collaborative Data Sovereignty is highly practical, achievable and within grasp as a driver for creating lasting change. Data remaining where it is generated necessitates the development of local systems, infrastructure, governance, and analytical capacity, helping to build stronger, independent, more sustainable, and collaborative research environments.

Read more: https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-372314

If you are interested in being part of this global task force to share know-how, experience and systems to achieve this please see more information here: https://globalhealthdatascience.tghn.org/hub-resources/data-sovereignty/