<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Modem biobanks should be considered as important structural platforms for sharing samples and data, providing benefits that go beyond those of a single study. To increase the impact of biobanking on feasible strategies to protect and improve peoples’ health, it could be useful to increase awareness about biobank research potential in the scientific community, as well as to promote collaboration among different fields of expertise. The basis for involvement of biobanks in public health has already been partly built up, emphasising the synergy in organising efforts and the openness to infrastructure collaboration, to ensure reliable long-term funding and resource sharing to the benefit of all. To obtain the maximum benefits possible from biobanks, which currently constitute a set of heterogeneous structures, a strategy of coordinated governance is needed, based on harmonisation of different aspects, built on the consensus of all stakeholders involved and society in general. It is important that researchers strive to understand public attitudes in this biobanking involvement so that the relationships between public trust in biobanking, donors’ behaviours and support for public-health involvement in the health-care system can be better understood. </p></abstract>

Modem biobanks should be considered as important structural platforms for sharing samples and data, providing benefits that go beyond those of a single study. To increase the impact of biobanking on feasible strategies to protect and improve peoples’ health, it could be useful to increase awareness about biobank research potential in the scientific community, as well as to promote collaboration among different fields of expertise. The basis for involvement of biobanks in public health has already been partly built up, emphasising the synergy in organising efforts and the openness to infrastructure collaboration, to ensure reliable long-term funding and resource sharing to the benefit of all. To obtain the maximum benefits possible from biobanks, which currently constitute a set of heterogeneous structures, a strategy of coordinated governance is needed, based on harmonisation of different aspects, built on the consensus of all stakeholders involved and society in general. It is important that researchers strive to understand public attitudes in this biobanking involvement so that the relationships between public trust in biobanking, donors’ behaviours and support for public-health involvement in the health-care system can be better understood.

Biobanks and Public Health: A New Challenge for Public Engagement and Trust

Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua 50, Via Falloppio Str. Padova, 35121

Department of Biotechnologies and Sciences of Life, Insubria University, Varese,

Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Research

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Modem biobanks should be considered as important structural platforms for sharing samples and data, providing benefits that go beyond those of a single study....

Biobanks and Public Health: A New Challenge for Public Engagement and Trust

Published Online: Nov 30, 2016

Page range: 17 - 20

Received: Sep 09, 2015

Accepted: May 30, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2016-0002

Keywords
biological specimen banks, public health, trust, patient engagement

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Biobanks and Public Health: A New Challenge for Public Engagement and Trust

Published Online: Nov 30, 2016

Page range: 17 - 20

Received: Sep 09, 2015

Accepted: May 30, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2016-0002

Keywordsbiological specimen banks, public health, trust, patient engagement

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
biological specimen banks, public health, trust, patient engagement