Request for access to PATH Diagnostics Image Repository


To expedite our process of sharing data for future research and commercialization, please complete the following survey. Your answers will be used to inform the Data Usage Agreement (DUA) required to share data, as well as to ensure ethical and scientific considerations are aligned with our mission and goals to improve global health equity. The PATH team will be reviewing requests and prioritizing those anticipated to be supportive of meeting needs of low-resource countries and markets. Upon review, we will be in touch to inform you if your request has been approved and coordinate possible next steps. Please direct all future inquiries to dximagerepo@path.org.

1. Organization Overview

Please provide the name, email, and title of the technical lead/principal investigator for this project.

Please provide the name and email of an administrative contact for your project, if available.


2. Intended Use and Technology Overview

Accessing the Image Repository

Please describe the primary goals of your request for access to the repository and of the proposed work, using the following prompt to specify and provide input:


Accessed data will be used to <conduct research and/or support commercialization of a digital health technology>. Research conducted using data will be used by <party conducting research> to <develop and train and/or evaluate or validate and/or other> of <product/prototype name>. Generated outputs from this work will include <x>.

Please indicate if you are looking for specific datasets (eg. health area, product-specific, etc.). Otherwise, we will assume you are seeking access to all publicly available data.

Please provide a summary of work to be conducted with data, including how the data will be used for each proposed activity.

Please describe, including input on its status of development/commercialization, any relevant regulatory approvals/authorizations, and generated evidence on performance. Please also provide any references to product, if available.

Sharing with the Image Repository

Please describe the primary goal of sharing data with the repository, if you see fit, and any relevant context of how the data was collected (as part of a project, for specific developer, other).

Please describe the data you would be willing to share with the repository (description, size/volume/amount, related diagnostic product, type of metadata collected, format).

Does the data contain patient identifying information?*

3. Commercialization and Market Access

For more information, see the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Access Statement: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Global-Access-Statement

See here for the World Bank's current economy classifications by income level: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups