Lucky 13! First national TRE cohort is on-boarded Scottish public health data now discoverable via the Cohort Discovery Search Tool We are delighted to announce that COVID data from Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) is now live on the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway‘s Cohort Discovery Search Tool (CDST). This is … Read More
CO-CONNECT Shortlisted for MRC award The project is a finalist for the Medical Research Council’s 2022 Open Impact Prize By Gabriella Linning We are delighted to announce that the CO-CONNECT project has been shortlisted in for the Medical Research Council (MRC) 2022 Impact Prize. The final results will be announced … Read More
CO-CONNECT Shortlisted in HDR UK’s Annual Awards We are happy to announce that CO-CONNECT has been short-listed for Health Data Research UK’s Annual Award for Reproducibility Recognitions. The project has been nominated for the team’s groundbreaking and innovative work with the Cohort Discovery Search Tool, which aims to make COVID-19 … Read More
CO-CONNECT Draws to a Close The CO-CONNECT team celebrated the end of the project with a final get-together to reflect on what they have accomplished, and the legacy they are leaving behind By Gabriella Linning Gordon Milligan, CO-CONNECT Programme Manager “It was an apt end to the project, with fascinating … Read More
ISARIC is 4C-ing! ISARIC 4C becomes CO-CONNECT’s 12th COVID-19 cohort to be on-boarded onto the Cohort Discovery Search Tool By Gabriella Linning We are pleased to announce that ISARIC 4C has become the 12th cohort to be made live and discoverable on the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway’s Cohort Discovery … Read More
What are CO-CONNECT’s thoughts on: the 2022 IPDLN conference? Work Package 2 Lead Esmond Urwin tells us about his experience presenting at the 2022 IPDLN conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. By Gabriella Linning Esmond Urwin, CO-CONNECT Work Package 2 Lead The 2022 International Population Data Linkage Network … Read More
CO-CONNECT takes on the IPDLN Conference By Gabriella Linning Last week, several members of the CO-CONNECT team attended and presented at the 2022 International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four of our team members – Antony Chuter, Emily Jefferson, Esmond Urwin, Gordon Milligan and Jillian Beggs … Read More
Follow-COVID: A journey from paper to the Innovation Gateway By Gabriella Linning Scott Horban, CO-CONNECT Data Team Leader, tells me what it took to get the Follow-COVID cohort live on the HDR Innovation Gateway. Gabriella Linning, Communications and Engagement Officer, University of Edinburgh Table of contents Gathering data Data entry … Read More
COVIDsortium goes live! CO-CONNECT’s 11th COVID cohort has been on-boarded onto the Cohort Discovery Search Tool By Gabriella Linning COVIDsortium has now gone live, making it the 11th COVID cohort CO-CONNECT has successfully onboarded onto the HDR Innovation Gateway‘s Cohort Discovery Search Tool (CDST). Led by Professor James Moon, COVIDsortium is … Read More
What is CO-CONNECT? In this animation video, we explain what CO-CONNECT is and the benefits it will provide the UK’s health data research community.