Sally Boylan, Catherine Arsenault, Marcos Barreto, Fernando A Bozza, Adalton Fonseca, Eoghan Forde, Lauren Hookham, Georgina S Humphreys, Maria Yury Ichihara, Kirsty Le Doare, Xiao Fan Liu, Edel McNamara, Jean Claude Mugunga, Juliane F Oliveira, Joseph Ouma, Neil Postlethwaite, Matthew Retford, Luis Felipe Reyes, Andrew D Morris, Anne Wozencraft
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of international data sharing and access to improve health outcomes for all. The International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) programme enabled 12 exemplar or driver projects to use existing health-related data to address major research questions relating to the pandemic, and developed data science approaches that helped each research team to overcome challenges, accelerate the data research cycle, and produce rapid insights and outputs. These approaches also sought to address inequity in data access and use, test approaches to ethical health data use, and make summary datasets and outputs accessible to a wider group of researchers...
May 2024: The Lancet. Digital health