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Improving children’s health through real-world healthcare data
Liz Moore and Alec Thomas, PhD researchers at The University of Liverpool and supported by HDR UK’s Inflammation and Immunity programme, share their work to explore the important questions about...
Richard’s story: ‘Before her diagnosis my mother had been a vibrant, independent woman’
Richard lost both of his maternal grandparents and his mother to dementia. This is the first in our Why I Took Part series - meeting the people whose involvement makes the Dementia Trials...
Building confidence in responsible data use
Building confidence in responsible data use for research requires clear, practical regulation and maintaining the safeguards needed to protect public trust, as we highlight in our response to the...
Where support falls short: Tackling variation in SEND provision
Dr Jennifer Saxton and Dr Ariadna Albajara Saenz at the University of Cambridge explore how special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support varies depending on where someone lives. Every...
Exploring good health through data with Somali women
Julianna Smith, from Health in the Margins CIC, shares their Take the Lead project working with Somali women and what good health means to the community.
New ways to listen: What creative health data means for our community
Patricia Vella-Burrows, Founder and Director of Music4Wellbeing, reflects how Take the Lead helped them use health data to bring their community together.
European Health Data Space: UK alignment as a strategic priority to enable improved outcomes for all
With the European Health Data Space set to influence standards, infrastructure and approaches to health data use across Europe for years to come, Anne explores what this means for the UK and why...
How open is “open” when we talk about open science?
At HDR UK, our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, alongside our international and global strategy, recognises that disparities in opportunity, resources, and capacity continue to shape...
Strengthening the foundations for respiratory research
Professor Jenni Quint shares how the Respiratory Data Science Catalyst is strengthening data infrastructure and uniting the community to accelerate research into chronic and acute respiratory...
