The African Society for Human Genetics has partnered with the SFI Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science on a publicly available webinar series that will take place from the 14-18th November 2022. 

Please see below for details. The zoom link to register is https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceGtrDwtG9yyi_Ow7CHLf3r12Cb6GHk1

African Genomics webinar flyer

The Health Research Data Protection Network (HRDPN) is a Network of data protection professionals from Universities, Hospitals, the HSE, NCTO, and not-for-profit Research Organisation/Networks.

The HRDPN has published a Practical Guide on Data Protection for Health Researchers.

This Practical Guide (“the Guide”) is intended to provide general information and understanding of the law to researches to help them understand with plain non-legal language their and their organisation’s role with regard to Data Protection, as well as related responsibilities and requirements.

The guide is available on the useful resources page of the National Clinical Trials Office website: https://ncto.ie/events-news/usefulresources/

Read the latest report of the IHRF on Health Reseach.
Their conclusions will be music to your ears!

The ISHG is pleased to share the recently published HRCI publication ‘Using data for better health research’

Winners of the 2021 National DNA Day Schools Essay Writing Competition, and details of the 2022 Competition.

Our 24th National conference again took place online this year. Our conference was really well received, our delegates particularly enjoyed the lunchtime discussion (for and against) reporting secondary findings (when found in a diagnostic laboratory) between Prof Gianpierro Cavalleri and Dr Lisa Bradley.