Case Studies
Case study examples of how we have enabled research across the UK.
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Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil: innovative community engagement approaches
Overview The DP-EFFECT project ran from July 2021 to October 2022 as part of the International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) initiative. The research team used different types of data to look...
Impact of COVID-19 containment policies on health service delivery and mortality in ten countries.
Overview The DP-REHCORD project was part of the International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) initiative, and sought to assess the impact of COVID-19 containment approaches, including curfews and...
Assessing and improving ethnicity data in England health records
Ethnicity data from general practice and hospital records of more than 60 million people in England has been studied in detail in for the first time.
Discovering the long-term health toll of heart attacks
Heart attack survivors are at greater long-term risk of heart and kidney failure and death, a study in 56 million people has shown.
Green Algorithms: Making computational science more environmentally sustainable
A research team has developed an online calculator to help scientists easily estimate the carbon footprint of a computation.
Using AI to identify hip migration in children with cerebral palsy
Researchers have developed an AI tool that automatically measures hip migration in X-ray images, enabling more timely interventions for children with cerebral palsy.
Insights from linking police domestic abuse data and health data in South Wales, UK
This study from Kennedy et al was selected by the HDR UK Impact Committee.
Understanding genetic diversity through RNA data to inform future research
This study from Fachrul et al was selected by the HDR UK Impact Committee.
Better research for pregnant women living with long-term health conditions
HDR UK-funded researchers consulted widely to discover the most important things to research on this under-served group of women.