Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity and private sectors to build the UK’s largest health research programme – bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat disease.
Our Future Health has recruited more than 2 million consented participants, and has bio-banked blood samples from over a million. Data currently available to researchers include baseline health questionnaires from 1,414,260 participants; genotype array data from 651,050 participants; 1,151,453 participants with linked health record data; and 1,025,498 participants with clinic measurements (anthropometry, lipids and blood pressure).
The aim is to recruit up to 5 million participants reflective of the UK adult population to create a unique resource that will catalyse research for both common and rare diseases – how they develop, how clinicians can intervene, and how patients can be treated.
Access to biological samples in this large prospective cohort will facilitate translational discoveries by enabling deep phenotyping of selected populations. The Our Future Health research programme will also enable selection of participants based on geography, demographics, genetics, phenotype, and disease risk, to be invited to consent to additional research studies and trials.
Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) website.