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Our mission is to unite the UK's health data to enable discoveries that improve people's lives.
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COVID-19
Our Data and Connectivity programme connects UK health data to accelerate research on COVID-19 and enable evidence-informed policies for responding to the pandemic.
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Celebrating impact from our Health Data Research Hubs
The Hubs provide a rich toolkit of healthcare datasets, infrastructure and expertise for nine areas of health data research. Learn about their impact to date.
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HDR UK Black Internship Programme
We're helping give young Black people in the UK opportunities to flourish in their future STEM careers and address underrepresentation in the field through our health data research Black Internship Programme.
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One in ten adults in Scotland still unvaccinated, study finds
Nearly half a million adults in Scotland – which represents some 10.5 per cent of the eligible adult population – have yet to receive any dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to new...
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Risk of blood clots remains for almost a year after COVID-19 infection, study suggests
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Data use register widget – the latest Innovation Gateway development
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Health Data Research UK Scientific Conference 2022: Data for global health and society
Join us at this free event to celebrate the global health data revolution, and help build the knowledge, collaborations and public trust needed to enable data-driven discoveries which improve peoples’ lives.
Wednesday 14 December 2022, Birmingham. 9:30-17:00.
Wednesday 14 December 2022, Birmingham. 9:30-17:00.
Advancing Health Research
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Research Publications
We advance health data science by funding research that uses data at scale and by enabling others in our community to do the same.
Our vision is that every patient, clinical trial, biomedical...
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Risk of blood clots remains for almost a year after COVID-19 infection, study suggests
COVID-19 infection increases the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots for at least 49 weeks, according to a new study of health records of 48 million unvaccinated adults from the first...
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Our Scientific Priorities
We are focusing our science strategy on priority areas that will have the maximum impact for the health of patients and populations across the UK. These prioritiy areas include The Human Phenome;...
Infrastructure and Services
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Discover Data on the Gateway
The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway (the 'Gateway') search engine or 'portal' provides a common entry point for researchers and innovators to discover and request access to health...
Opinion
What are phenotypes in data science? The HDR UK Phenotype Library, explained
Dan Thayer, a senior data scientist and team lead at the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank, introduces the HDR Phenotype Library - explaining what phenotypes are, why they’re...
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Trusted Research Environments
We are committed to enabling the trustworthy use of health data for research. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have championed and led the use of Trusted Research Environments (also known as...
Support for Scientists and Researchers in Ukraine
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