We are the national institute for health data science.
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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Study finds no improvement in health care inequality across England and Wales
New research by SAIL Databank finds that people living in the most deprived areas were more likely to need a hip replacement but less likely to receive one than more affluent people.
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How data science is transforming healthcare
Advancing Health Research
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COVID-19 vaccine protects people of all body weights from hospitalisation and death, study of 9 million adults in England suggests
Largest study of body mass index (BMI) and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness using the QResearch platform suggests two doses are highly effective against severe disease for people who are...
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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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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
Opinion
How can we support adoption of the data use register standard?
In January of 2022 the UK Health Data Research Alliance (the ‘Alliance’) published recommendations for a data use register standard. The standard outlines five recommendations to support data...
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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...
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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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