Scientific Committee and Scientific Executive Board

Tasks and responsibilities

• Aims to promote appropriate, high-standard use of the data.
• Supervises and develops the documentation of data.
• Assists in supervising the use of data i.e. data experts in the data application procedure.
• Ensures compliance with the good scientific practice in research and publication policy
• Collects the feedback from Northern Finland Birth cohort (NFBC) data users

Appointment subject to the invitation

• The NFBC Research Director invites the relevant users of the NFBC data, the relevant NFBC personnel and other experts to the Scientific Committee meetings
• There is no fixed term for this committee, but members are defined on the basis described above.

Frequency of meetings
Meets several times a year as needed

Members for 2024

The NFBC Research Director is the chair of the committee