Data Partnership & Governance Workstream

Mission

Develop partnerships with organizations and their Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)—with single IRB review offered at Johns Hopkins University—and execute a common data use agreement (DUA) for contributing to and accessing the N3C dataset. Establish a Data Access Committee (DAC) for evaluating data access requests.

Community Guiding Principles for the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

N3C Data User Code of Conduct

Fridays 7am PT/10am ET

Connect with Us:

Onboard to N3C using the link below.
- In there you will provide your email address. We will add that email address to the CD2H workspace.
Go to our workstream Slack channel directly using the link provided below.
- Login with your Slack credentials.

Onboard to N3C

Governance Slack Channel

Governance Google Group

N3C Data Access Tiers and Conditions for COVID-19 Related Research

View the NCATS Data Access Overview for more information.

	Limited	De-identified	Synthetic
Data Description:	Patient data that retain the following protected health information: dates of service patient ZIP code	Patient data from the LDS with the following changes: Dates of service are algorithmically shifted to protect patient privacy. Patient ZIP codes are truncated to the first three digits or removed entirely if the ZIP code represents fewer than 20,000 individuals.	Data that are computationally derived from the LDS that resemble patient information statistically but are not actual patient data.
Eligible Users:	Researchers from U.S.-based institutions	Researchers from U.S.-based institutions Researchers from foreign institutions	Researchers from U.S.-based institutions Researchers from foreign institutions Citizen scientists
Access Requirements*:	N3C Registration N3C Data Enclave account DUA executed with NCATS NIH IT training completion Approved DUR Human Subjects Research Protection training completion Local Human Research Protection Program IRB determination letter	N3C Registration N3C Data Enclave account DUA executed with NCATS NIH IT training completion Approved DUR Human Subjects Research Protection training completion	N3C Registration N3C Data Enclave account Data Use Agreement (DUA) executed with NCATS NIH IT training completion Approved Data Use Request (DUR)
*Data access requirements may change over time.

Leadership and Administration

Christine Suver, PhD, PMP
Sage Bionetworks

Anita Walden, MS
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus