Health Data Research UK
We are uniting the UK’s health data to make discoveries that improve people’s lives.
By making health data available to researchers and innovators we can better understand diseases and find ways to prevent, treat and cure them.
What is health data science?
Health data science combines maths, statistics and technology to study different types of health problems using data. It helps us to better understand diseases and conditions and can provide new ways of treating them or spotting them earlier
Health Data Research Alliance
Bringing together the UK’s leading health organisations to enable responsible access to data across the health research community - a new UK Health Data Research Alliance will unite expertise to establish best practice
Sprint Exemplar Innovation Projects
Ten Sprint Exemplar Innovation Projects funded through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, will demonstrate real world examples of using health data in a responsible way to improve health and drive innovation across the UK
Latest from Health Data Research UK
Features
News announcement
2 April 2019
Health Data Research UK is today announcing it will launch a competition on 7 May 2019 to establish Digital Innovation Hubs across the UK. This is part of a £37.5M UK government investment in...
HDR UK vacancy
Applications close 11 April 2019
London
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is the new national Institute for data science in health. Our UK team of experts develop and apply cutting-edge data science approaches to clinical, biological, genomic and other multi-dimensional health data to address the most pressing health research challenges facing the public.
HDR UK is uniting the UK’s Health Data to make discoveries that improve people’s lives.
Our vision is that every health and care interaction and research endeavour will be enhanced by access to large scale data and advanced analytics.
HDR UK event
19 August 2019 at 12:00 am
University of St Andrews
We are delighted to announce early details of Health Data Research UK's inaugural Summer School, hosted by the University of St Andrews during the week of 19 to 23 August 2019
Get in touch
We're keen to hear from you if you have ideas, questions or comments - including if you would like to discuss opportunities to collaborate with us.