News & Events

Keep up to date with CO-CONNECT’s latest news and events.

Lucky 13! First national TRE cohort is on-boarded

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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!

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?

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.

CO-CONNECT to feature at the 2022 IPDLN conference

CO-CONNECT to feature at the 2022 IPDLN conference By Gabriella Linning We are happy to announce that four members of the CO-CONNECT team have had their abstracts accepted into the 2022 International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) conference, and will present their work as part of the event’s impressive line-up of speakers. … Read More

CO-CONNECT team members recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list

CO-CONNECT team members recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list By Gabriella Linning We are delighted to announce that three members of the CO-CONNECT team were recognised in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours list. Team members Aziz Sheikh, Joanne Martin and Susan Hopkins have been given the most prestigious of recognitions for … Read More

Data Pipeline Video Demos Available

Find out more about the explainer videos we’ve made to support our data partners in the data pipeline process.… Read More

ALSPAC and GOSH: a story of success for the COVID-19 curated and open analysis research platform

GOSH and ALSPAC have successfully standardised their data for CO-CONNECT. Read more about their experience and what made the process a success.… Read More

Oxford Healthcare Workers Dataset Mapped

CO-CONNECT has mapped the Oxford Healthcare Workers (OHW) dataset successfully. Find out more about how CO-CONNECT and OHW worked together to make it happen.… Read More

CO-CONNECT Update: Focus on Work Package 2

In this post we learn what has been happening in Work Package 2, which supports capture of standardised, granular serology data from across the UK.… Read More

Introducing MATCH

Introducing Match 2000 health care workers in NHS Tayside and from social care will have blood samples tested to detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, to identify undiagnosed asymptomatic healthcare worker infections with COVID-19. The aims of the study are to: Identify undiagnosed asymptomatic healthcare worker infections with COVID-19; Understand the burden … Read More

Introducing PANTHER

Introducing PANTHER The PANTHER (PANdemic Tracking of Healthcare woRkers) study aims to deepen the understanding of susceptibility to, immunity from and transmission of Sars-Cov2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) in an at risk population.  It is hosted at University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and supported by the … Read More