International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA)
ICODA brought together an international alliance of partners that united to harness the power of health data to respond to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Together, we sought to develop an equitable, trustworthy approach to overcome the challenges of data access and use to improve health outcomes through enabling a cohort of exemplar studies or driver projects.
Convened by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), the International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) programme was an independent consortium of leading life science, philanthropic and research organisations uniting to respond to the COVID-19 global pandemic. ICODA was funded by the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Program
The ICODA programme supported researchers from 19 countries to access and analyse a broad range of health-related data types, enabling access to datasets from over 70 data partners. These projects addressed major research questions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the effectiveness of community-based vaccination programmes and the effect of the pandemic on health service delivery.
- 12
- Global driver projects
- 135
- Researchers from 19 countries
- 40
- Publications to date
For the full list of outputs from the ICODA programme visit our Publications & Outputs page.
Building on the ICODA programme, HDR UK has now convened the HDR Global programme which seeks to enable trustworthy data access, re-use and analysis in regions, communities and disease areas, where evidence to tackle threats to public health is lacking.
