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ADR UK is pleased to announce that Dr Emma Gordon, Director of ADR UK, has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Cancer Data-Driven Detection (CD3) programme. The £10 million UK-wide initiative aims to transform cancer prevention, early detection and diagnosis by securely linking and analysing large-scale health and administrative datasets.
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This blog offers a preview of the keynote by Helena Benes Matos da Silva at the ADR UK Conference 2025. She will share insights from the work of the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs), focusing on how linked administrative data in Brazil is transforming public health research, particularly for populations at risk of poor outcomes.
This blog by Evie Parmenter, Senior Research Portfolio Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council, explores the powerful connection between our environment and our health. Drawing on insights from research funded by ADR UK, it highlights how factors like pollution, green space access, and housing conditions shape wellbeing, and how linked administrative data can help drive better decisions and healthier outcomes.
Rob French, lead of the ADR Wales Education research theme, highlights the opportunities and challenges of linking child health and education data for research – both on a national and international scale. These will be explored in a new special edition of the International Journal of Population Data Science.
We are delighted to announce that the ECHILD – England dataset is now available for accredited researchers to apply to access via the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service. ECHILD stands for Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data. The dataset can be used to answer policy-relevant research questions around the relationship between education and children’s health.
