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How health data research is playing its part in tackling COVID-19

24 March 2020

As the national institute for health data research, the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) community is actively championing the use of health data to address the COVID-19 challenge. It has been...

News announcement

Health data scientists help launch national effort to sequence and track coronavirus genomes across the UK

23 March 2020

Health Data Research UK – the country’s national institute for health data science – will be a key partner in a major national effort to help understand and control the new coronavirus...

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Opinion

Integrated health data and cross sector working – A view from the frontline of healthcare services

17 March 2020

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Health Data Research Hubs hit first milestone in three months

16 March 2020

The seven Health Data Research Hubs, announced in September 2019 and launched on the 1 October, hit their first milestone on 31 December.

Opinion

CSD3 Supercomputer – what does it mean for HDR UK?

3 March 2020

Health Data Research UK recently announced an exciting new partnership with the national supercomputing facilities as a part of wider funding led by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...

HDR UK event

HDR UK Multi-omics Consortium Kick-Off Meeting

24 March 2020 at 10:00 am

Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE

About this Event HDRUK Multi-omics Consortium kick-off meeting The HDRUK Multi-omics Consortium is one of the major initiatives within HDRUK’s Understanding the Causes of Disease programme....

Opinion

Improving the nation’s cardio-vascular health: the BHF Data Science Centre

25 February 2020

Following discussions with UK cardiovascular research leaders, health care data custodians across all four UK nations, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and a range of other stakeholders, in June...

News announcement

UK-Canadian initiative to support the development of responsible artificial intelligence

25 February 2020

Health Data Research UK researcher Dr Michael Inouye from the University of Cambridge has teamed up with Dr Brent Richards from McGill University, Canada on a three-year project ‘Artificial...

News story

Study reveals that some antibiotics prescribed during pregnancy are linked with birth defects

21 February 2020

In a study published this week by UCL, the use of health data has enabled researchers to assess the association between macrolide antibiotics and major malformations such as heart and genital...