Obtaining informed consent from a participant or patient undergirds research and healthcare practices. Yet patient and participant consent forms are often long documents that are difficult to understand, leading to confusion, suspicion, or even serious ethical harm. To support researchers and clinicians in drafting ethically appropriate, clear, and digestible consent forms, the GA4GH Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream (REWS) has developed the Consent Toolkit, with sample consent clauses for clinical genomics, genomic research, large-scale initiatives, rare disease research, families, and paediatrics.

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Benefits

• Provides template responses help researchers and clinicians efficiently draft consent forms
• Includes customisable responses that are easily adaptable across contexts
• Represents clauses in a machine-readable way to promote efficient and accurate data sharing

Target users

Researchers, and clinicians