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
UK Health Data Research Alliance
Find out about the UK Health Data Research Alliance, an alliance of leading health, care and research organisations united to establish best practice to enable the ethical use of UK health data for research and innovation at scale
HDR UK Innovation Gateway
Created with input from patients and researchers, this first phase of the Gateway provides a library of information about 464 health datasets that are held and managed by the NHS, research charities, research institutes and universities
Lessons from COVID-19 on UK Health Data Science
COVID-19 has demonstrated how important and powerful the safe access and use of health data can be and this is an opportunity for us to learn and set an ambitious strategy for health data science.
HDR UK Weekly COVID-19 round up | 23 July 20
Our weekly updates highlight the range of projects members of the HDR UK community are working on to address the COVID-19 pandemic and global challenge. Read on to find out about the latest...
Partners join forces to establish an International Alliance to enable secure and collaborative COVID-19 data research at scale
Today, 26 June 2020, the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator has announced a grant to Health Data Research UK to establish a new International Data Research Alliance and data analysis Workbench to...
Risk calculator developed to show how underlying health conditions can affect mortality rates in COVID-19 pandemic
A national multi-omics consortium to inform disease aetiology and prediction
UK-Canadian AI initiative to create equitable multi-ethnic polygenic risk scores that improve clinical care
The Health Data Gateway will let you quickly discover and identify health related datasets. By using a keyword search or by browsing, you can get detailed descriptions of the datasets that interest you.
