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; Applied Analytics; Understanding the Causes of Disease; Better, Faster, Efficient Clinical Trials; Improving Public Health; and Better Care.
Overview
Our research will use health data in all its forms – including NHS patient data, genomics, biomedicine and wearable data – to understand predispositions to disease, develop targeted treatments and deliver new discoveries from real-world data to improve patient care.
Our national health data scientific programmes leverage the interdisciplinary skills, expertise and partnerships across our six distributed sites, breaking down geographic and disciplinary boundaries. Each will identify the big research questions that individual research organisations are unable to tackle alone.

The Human Phenome
We are interested in understanding diagnosis and risk of ill health across a wide range of health conditions, to develop new ways to improve patients’ lives and aid health care...

Applied Analytics
We use applied analytics for health data research and innovation to directly improve the NHS and help save lives. Our Applied Analytivs scientific priority aims to match expert knowledge of new...

Better, Faster and More Efficient Clinical Trials
Using health data to help clinical trials improve people’s lives faster.

Improving Public Health
Find out all about how this science priority is improving people's lives - the strategy, projects underway, progress so far and the people involved

Understanding the Causes of Disease
We are using health data in its multiple forms to understand the causes of disease and discover new targeted treatments rather than just addressing symptoms.

Better Care
Find out all about how this science priority is improving people's lives - the strategy, projects underway, progress so far and the people involved
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