NFDI4Health was represented at the Dataverse Community Meeting 2023, which was held at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, from June 5th to June 7th, by Johannes Darms and Vera Clemens. Dataverse is an open-source software designed for research data management, facilitating the dissemination of FAIR research data across various disciplines. The Community Meeting brought together developers and users of the Dataverse software from various backgrounds to discuss and exchange knowledge.
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In the last week before the summerbreak of the German Bundestag, the Committee for Education, Research, and Technology Assessment held a public consultation on the topic "Data use in health research". On July 5 Professor Juliane Fluck, NFDI4Health spokesperson and NFDI representative in the field of health, was invited as an expert.
On June 26 and 27, a cross-national exchange on current concepts, methods and tools of clinical research data in the European context took place in Berlin.
Children and adolescents were particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, good data proving the concrete consequences has often been lacking or difficult to find. A new cooperation between the coverCHILD and NFDI4Health projects aims to change this. At the centre of the cooperation is the German Central Health Study Hub, which enables coverCHILD to make study results on COVID-19 and its consequences for children and adolescents easier to find.
On 20 and 21 June, the Federal Ministry of Health organised the "Data for Health Conference 2023". Leading experts from the USA and Europe discussed the framework conditions and possibilities for the use of health data. NFDI4Health took the opportunity to present two innovative approaches based on Code2Data technology to the expert audience from science and politics.
It is currently difficult to conduct research on international health data. What problems exist, how the hurdles can be overcome, how data can remain secure but still make more research possible - this is the topic of an international health data congress on 20-21 June 2023 in Berlin. The NFDI4Health will be there.
On 21 September 2023, the U Bremen Research Alliance together with JUST ADD AI, the Transfer Centre for Artificial Intelligence BREMEN.AI and the Integrated Health Campus Bremen invite you to the AI in Health conference with a diverse programme of presentations, discussions and networking. The event is free of charge and places are limited.