Join the BRIDGE project: Seeking graduate and postdoc volunteers to explore global neuroimaging data

The BRIDGE project (braindatagovernance.org), is tasked to develop international data governance frameworks (IDGFs) to facilitate the cross-border sharing of brain and mental health data, addressing the unique challenges posed by varying legal, ethical, and technical landscapes. It is well known that data accessibility, awareness, and training resources are far more prevalent in high-resource settings, leaving low- and middle-income countries at a disadvantage. This imbalance significantly hampers the global equity and inclusiveness of neuroscience research, particularly in mental health. To effectively address and minimize this disparity, BRIDGE is working to identify and thoroughly understand the barriers that exist at each stage of the research process across high-, middle-, and low-resource settings.

For the Pathfinders Phase Two component of the project, volunteers will be asked to access several datasets (2-4) from different parts of the world and record the steps of downloading, minimally processing and analyzing each dataset. All volunteers who complete the steps for their assigned datasets will be offered co-authorship on any subsequent manuscripts produced from their efforts. In the coming weeks we will be ready to launch this phase of the BRIDGE project. We would like to enlist PhD students and Postdocs who have had previous experience handling human brain data to volunteer with us. All work can be completed remotely.

Sign up here: BRIDGE Pathfinders Sign Up