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Accessing Health Data

Accessing Health Data

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Topic

Accessing Health Data

Time needed to complete7 hours
Starts9 December 2024
Self PacedSelf Paced

About this course

Access to health data relies on public trust, and to maintain that trust, frameworks and work environments have been designed to keep data secure. In order to have access to health data, researchers must have a thorough understanding of these frameworks and environments.

The objective of this course is to bring users an insight and understanding of the techniques of accessing health data, the protocols to use to ensure it is kept secure, and to demonstrate some examples of these approaches being practise successfully.

The first three videos in this course are developed in conjunction with the Medical Research Council (MRC) Regulatory Office. They explore the main concepts you need to understand when working with health data, and-explain where to get further information.

Also included is a webinar explaining and demonstrating for researchers, the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway (the ‘Gateway’).

The remaining videos focus much more on gaining a more detailed understanding of working in a Trusted Research Environment (TRE). These have been developed and are presented by researchers working directly in the field, namely Fatemeh Torabi and Utkarsh Agrawal.

Note that written transcripts are available in each learning module.

Intended audience

The general theme of this course is core for researchers in the health field, however, the content can be freely accessed by anyone wishing to learn more about accessing health data.


Instructors

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Alex Bailey
Programme Manager: Data Access and Evidence
Medical Research Council Regulatory Support Centre

Alex Bailey works for the Medical Research Council’s Regulatory ... Read more

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Venexia Walker
University of Bristol

Venexia Walker is an epidemiologist at the University of Bristol... Read more

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Fatemeh Torabi
Assistant Professor in Healthcare Data Science
University of Cambridge

Fatemeh is an Assistant Professor in Healthcare Data Science at ... Read more

Utkarsh Agrawal Profile Photo
Utkarsh Agrawal
Research Fellow in Health Data Science
University of St Andrews

Dr Utkarsh Agrawal is a Research Fellow in Health Data Science a... Read more