Data Access Policy: governance of access to Oxford Population Health data

Oxford Population Health data access committee

This group, which includes the Head of Department (Professor Prabhat Jha), is responsible for oversight of the departmental and study-specific data access policies, procedures and timelines for data availability, development of IT infrastructure required to support data access, development of website materials and communications, procedures for data extraction and provision of supporting services, reviewing publications to ensure compliance with data-sharing rules (eg confidentiality, acknowledgement of funders), and reviewing metrics (eg on applications and timelines) relevant to the department’s data-sharing activities. This committee would consider any appeal that an applicant might make.

Oxford Population Health data access management team

This team is responsible for supervising all the practical procedures and processes involved in accessing data held by the department. This includes: management of the approval system for data access requests; supervision of data extraction and provision of associated services; tracking of applications, decisions and outputs; providing accurate and up-to-date information on all studies for use on the department’s website, and the provision of advice to data requesters. Individual studies may have their own team responsible for these activities.

Data Access Policy v3 published October 2025