Data and Connectivity Funding Call
The COVID-19 Data and Connectivity National Core Study (NCS), partnered with the Alan Turing Institute, to invite the UK’s data science community to use the health data research infrastructure established by the COVID-19 NCS programme, including a nationwide network of Trusted Research Environments (TREs), to contribute to the national COVID-19 response and future pandemic preparedness.
Our Current Funding Call
The most recent funding call launched in September 2021.
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Expanding on the incredible work of the UK health research community in supporting policy makers to understand and respond to COVID-19, the Data and Connectivity National Core Study (led by Health Data Research UK in partnership with the Office for National Statistics) and The Alan Turing Institute are working in partnership with research teams across the UK to support nine new research projects, awarded total of £2m, that tackle ongoing, urgent questions about the virus and support future pandemic preparedness.
The nine projects will be delivered by 16 collaborating universities across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The projects, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will seek to answer vital research questions and will utilise and improve the data infrastructure assembled through the Data & Connectivity National Core Study programme, in partnership with the UK network of Trusted Research Environments (TREs).
There are over 90 National Core Studies datasets discoverable across TREs via the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway
These projects are:
The impact of previous exposure to COVID-19 and the safety of COVID-19 vaccination for fert...
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Luisa Zuccolo (University of Bristol) The research project will...
Over time, will changes in the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus result in a decrease in vacci...
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Emma C Thomson (University of Glasgow). The research project...
Do children and young people need extra follow up care after having SARS-CoV-2 infection?
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Olivia Swann (University of Edinburgh). The research project...
Are people with chronic lung diseases at a higher risk of cardiovascular complications afte...
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Jennifer Quint (Imperial College London). The research project...
Using artificial intelligence as an aid to predict the risk of hospital readmission in pati...
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Ewen M Harrison (University of Edinburgh). The research project...
DaC-VaP-2: The impact of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy, children and young people, and vul...
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Aziz Sheikh (University of Edinburgh) The research project will...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of individuals with Long Term Conditions
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Clare Gillies (University of Leicester). The research project...
Using medicines data to understand the effects of COVID – 19 on clinical care.
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Reecha Sofat (University College London and University of...
Improving methods in health technology to reduce inequalities, particularly ethnicity bias,...
The successfully awarded research project through a funding call by Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute is led by Sara Khalid (University of Oxford) The research project will...
Our Previous Funding Call
12 urgent research projects received funding following a rapid call for COVID-19 data research initiatives by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The successful projects built on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer key COVID-19 research questions.