Experiences of Health Research Data Sharing Among Researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Sectional Study

Felix Sukums   ¹ , PhD ;   Bernard Ngowi   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Rebecca Chaula   ⁴ , MSc ;   Kim L Weiszhar   ⁵ , MSc ;   Akili Kalinga   ⁶ , PhD ;   Olena Ivanova   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Clarissa Prazeres da Costa   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Achim Hoerauf   ⁹ , PhD ;   Sundeep Sahay   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Emilia Virginia Noormahomed   ^{11, 12} , PhD ;   Linda B Debrah   ¹³ , PhD ;   Chummy Sikasunge   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Helena Ngowi   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Andrea S Winkler   ^{5, 16, 17} , PhD

¹ Digital Health Unit, School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

² Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, United Republic of Tanzania

³ Muhimbili Medical Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

⁴ Directorate of ICT, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

⁵ Department of Neurology, TUM University Hospital, and Center for Global Health, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

⁶ National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

⁷ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

⁸ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany

⁹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

¹⁰ Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

¹¹ Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique

¹² Mozambique Institute for Health Education and Research (MIHER), Maputo, Mozambique

¹³ School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

¹⁴ School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

¹⁵ Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, United Republic of Tanzania

¹⁶ Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

¹⁷ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States