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Data & sample collections

20 collections

  • Airwave

    Airwave Health Monitoring Study
    The Airwave Tissue Bank is an epidemiological study of police officers and staff in Great Britain. It was established in 2003 to investigate possible long-term health effects associated with use of TETRA, the personal radio system used by the police service. Participant recruitment was piloted from June 2004 via paper questionnaire and health screen. After two years, the pilot was deemed successful and, with some revisions to the protocol, the main phase of recruitment began in 2006. We toured the country, spending time with police forces keen to enroll their officers and staff. Recruitment ended in March 2015 forming a baseline of approximately 53,000. In November 2015, we began a programme of follow-up health screens for participants whose previous screen was at least 5-years prior. This continued until the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. During the following two pandemic years the cohort volunteered for two important components of the REACT Study, making valuable contributions to research into diagnostic methods. The cohort has been richly phenotyped, flagged to routine records, and has a substantial biobank of blood and urine samples. It provides an excellent and unique resource to study the genetic, metabolic, occupational and lifestyle factors associated with mental health and cognitive performance among a predominantly male and young adult workforce with a well-defined organisational hierarchy.

  • ALSPAC

    Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
    Based at the University of Bristol, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study. Between April 1991 and December 1992 we recruited more than 14,000 pregnant women into the study and these women (some of whom had two pregnancies or multiple births during the recruitment period), the children arising from the pregnancy, and their partners have been followed up intensively over two decades. We are the most detailed study of its kind in the world and we provide the international research community with a rich resource for the study of the environmental and genetic factors that affect a person’s health and development. Through our research we aim to inform policy and practices that will provide a better life for future generations.

  • BIB

    Born in Bradford
    Born in Bradford (BiB) started in 2007 as a response to the poor health outcomes for children in Bradford. Pregnant women were recruited when they attended the Bradford Royal Infirmary for their routine maternity care. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire about different aspects of their lives including demographics information, physical and mental health and socio-economic information. Between 2007 and 2011, 12,453 pregnant women were recruited and 3,353 of their partners. Participants also gave permission for routine data linkage for themselves and their children. The BiB cohort is split between approximately 50% South Asian and 50% non-South Asian participants. BiB has completed a number of sub-sample studies including BiB1000, which focused on exploring ethnic variation and risk factors of childhood obesity. Data collection included questionnaires with parents when the children were between 6 and 36 months at 6 monthly intervals.The ALLIN and MeDALL studies focused on the relationships between childhood allergies and infections. Data collection for these studies were done via a questionnaire and, for the MeDALL study, children were asked to have a skin allergy test. Since 2016, BiB have undertaken a full cohort follow-up compromising of home visits for data collection through questionnaires, school visits where children carried out cognitive assessments, and a child measurement programme where children were weighed and measured, had their activity levels measured, and were asked to give a blood sample. From the findings of these studies, BiB have developed a range of additional research projects such as evaluating and developing new interventions to improve health; for example, focusing on reducing childhood obesity, increasing physical activity, improving oral health and improving mental wellbeing. BiB have gone beyond functioning as an observational birth cohort and are actively trying to build and strengthen local research capacity and translate evidence to practice.

  • CIHNR

    Copenhagen Infant Health Nurse Records
    The Copenhagen Infant Health Nurse Records (CIHNR) is a historic, population-based cohort and electronic database containing health examination data for 92902 infants born between 1959 and 1967 and resident in Copenhagen municipality, Denmark. The dataset is linkable to national health and socioeconomic registers and databases as well as Danish studies for follow-up.

  • CPC

    Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort
    The Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort (CPC) comprises 9125 individuals born at the National University Hospital between September 1959 and December 1961. The mothers were interviewed regarding social, general medical, and obstetrical history during pregnancy and at an antenatal visit at the hospital. The mothers and their children were examined at birth and invited to follow-up examinations of the children at 1, 3 and 6 years of age, which were done at the hospital. At the age of 41–43 years study participants were sent a questionnaire on lifestyle risk factors and health issues.

  • CSHRR

    Copenhagen School Health Records Register

  • DanFunD

    The Danish study of Functional Disorders

  • DanFunDxCSHRR

    Copenhagen School Health Records Register x The Danish study of Functional Disorders overlap

  • Exposome Maps

    Exposome Maps
    Exposome Maps is a data catalogue of geospatially resolved datasets on environmental exposure estimates. It contains more than 100 datasets on several Exposome dimensions including Physico-Chemical Environment, Built Environment, Food Environment, and Social Environment. It provides harmonized data collections across Europe for following environmental factors: PM10, PM2.5, NO2, O3, Temperature, Ultra Violet Radiation, Road Traffic Noise, Urbanicity, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ), MSAVI (Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index), Green spaces, Blue spaces, Imperviousness, Light at night, Walkability Index.

  • FinnGen

    The FinnGen Study
    FinnGen is a large-scale public–private initiative that integrates nationwide genomic data with comprehensive health-registry information from Finland. By leveraging the country’s semi-isolated population structure and historical bottlenecks, which enrich rare and high-impact alleles, it enables more efficient detection of variant–disease associations. The resource offers deeply phenotyped, population-level data that accelerates novel genetic insights and supports impactful scientific collaboration.

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