Creating ethically sourced and trustworthy health data repositories is critical for building trustworthy biomedical and behavioral research infrastructure, especially when such repositories underpin machine learning and AI systems. In Ethical sourcing in the context of health data supply chain management: a value sensitive design approach (Nebeker et al., 2025), we integrate value sensitive design (VSD) with concepts from supply chain management to operationalize ethical values across the stages of developing health data repositories. The resulting framework identifies key actors, values (e.g., traceability, security, equity), and tensions that arise during repository creation and highlights practices such as documenting data provenance, articulating expectations for data stewards, and implementing comprehensive privacy and bias mitigation strategies.

During this session, Dr. Nebeker will provide an overview of this framework with a focus on developing a companion checklist that is grounded in VSD and supply chain scaffolding and can be used as actionable guidance in dataset creation.