Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Data Protection and GDPR for Biomedical Researchers
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3943-23-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 10/05/2023

Date and time	24.05.2023, at: 09:00 - 25.05.2023, at: 16:30
Regular seats	15
Course fee	2,520.00 kr.
Lecturers	Anders Krogh
ECTS credits	1.20

Contact person	Diana Andrejeva E-mail address: andrejeva@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand basic concepts and principles of relevant data protection and GDPR regulations. 2. Describe and explain what data controller, data processor, and joint data controllership is. 3. Recognizes what legal obligations lawful data processing entails and where to get help regarding data processing and sharing agreements. 4. Grasp fundamental principles of research ethics and ethical issues concerning health data. Understand the process of ethics assessment and risk mitigation, particularly, regarding sensitive bioinformatics data. 5. Have insight on information security best practices, and data protection by design and default (risk assessment, data protection impact assessment). 6. Be able to identify appropriate technical and organizational measures available for KU employees. Content This course is a practical introduction to data protection and GDPR compliance throughout the research lifecycle. It will provide an overview of the health data resources in Denmark and the minimum requirements for research data management. The course will cover the scope, principles, and concepts of GDPR regulation, such as the data controller and processor, the concept of lawful processing and data processing and sharing agreements. Participants will also learn about health data research ethics and risk assessment. How to apply to the scientific ethics committee and how to handle spatial requirements for bioinformatics data and incidental findings. The course will further touch upon information security practices, covering risk assessment and data protection impact assessment. As well as technical and organizational measures to mitigate the risk. The focus of the course is health/genomic data, particularly secondary research on already existing data (registries, health records, genomic data from research, and clinical biobanks. Participants PhD students enrolled at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, mid and senior level researchers employed at SUND and working with health data. Max 15 PhD students. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English Form This course is a 2-day course composed of a combination of lectures and small exercise sessions. Course director Anders Krogh,?? Professor, Head of Center for Health Data Science,?? Center for Health Data Science,?? anders.krogh@sund.ku.dk Teachers Diana Andrejeva PhD, Data Scientist,? Center for Health Data Science,?? andrejeva@sund.ku.dk Marianne Dichow In-house lawyer, Faculty Service, marianne.dichow@sund.ku.dk Ole Frendved Hansen IT Security Specialist, UCPH IT, Basic Services, ofh@adm.ku.dk Susanne den Boer Beckers Senior Advisor, Department management and Information security, susanne.denboer@adm.ku.dk Dates 24-25 May 2023, from 09:00 to 16:30 Course location Holst auditorium, Maersk Tower,? Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Panum,?? Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København. Registration Please register before 10 May 2023 Expected frequency This course is run once a year. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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