{"id":15135,"date":"2025-03-05T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/?page_id=15135"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:40:23","slug":"dbac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/dbac\/","title":{"rendered":"H3Africa DBAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741167499556{margin-top: 36px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>H3Africa Data and Biospecimen Access Committee (DBAC)<\/h3>\n<p>The DBAC oversees access to H3Africa datasets and biospecimens, helping ensure that requests comply with ethical guidelines, informed consent, data-security requirements, and research-integrity standards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/h3africa-dbac-approvals\/\">View approved requests<\/a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ensuring-Ethical-Fair-Access-to-H3Africa-Data-The-Role-of-DBAC-5.pdf\">Download the DBAC overview poster (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>DBAC members<\/h3>\n<p>Select a member\u2019s name to open their profile. 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Secretariat<br \/><strong>Affiliation:<\/strong> University of Cape Town<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/shonna-smith\/\">Shonna Smith<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong> Secretariat<br \/><strong>Affiliation:<\/strong> University of Cape Town<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>DBAC overview poster<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ensuring-Ethical-Fair-Access-to-H3Africa-Data-The-Role-of-DBAC-5.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Ensuring Ethical &amp; Fair Access to H3Africa Data: The Role of DBAC<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications and Marker Paper Working Group 2017 Minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-15135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-working-groups-consortium-documents","tag-dbac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15467,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15135\/revisions\/15467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}