News & Events

News & Events

October

  • 2025 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowship, UWA

    Tuesday, 29 October 2024 

    Congratulations to Associate Professor Daniel Horton who has been awarded the 2025 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowship at UWA, through the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA.

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  • Sharing General Practice Data

    Thursday, 10 October 2024 

    GP information is increasingly used for quality assurance, evaluation, health service planning and research. This new medicSA article explores the legal, ethical and social implications of using primary care data for research.

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September

  • How can we maintain community trust in data usage? IPDLN 2024

    Friday, 20 September 2024 

    How can we maintain community trust in data usage? On day two of the IPDLN conference, this collaborative workshop with HDRN Canada explored social licence issues regarding the use of health data for research.

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  • The ‘mind-blowing potential’ of Artificial Intelligence

    Wednesday, 18 September 2024 

    Artificial intelligence (AI) and its transformative role in life sciences took centre stage at an event featuring European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI Director Prof Ewan Birney and jointly hosted by EMBL Australia and Bioplatforms Australia at Canberra's iconic Shine Dome (The Australian Academy of Science).

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  • IPDLN 2024 Conference Q&A with Merran Smith

    Monday, 02 September 2024 

    The International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) conference kicks off this month in the windy city – Chicago, home of deep dish pizza, Al Capone and architectural gems – attracting 700-plus international delegates.

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August

  • New Impact Story: Uncovering the extent of endometriosis

    Monday, 26 August 2024 

    Sydney will host the World Congress of Endometriosis in May 2025, marking the largest gathering of clinical, scientific and allied health professionals working in the field.

    In our new Impact Story, Professor Gita Mishra explains how the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health links health and survey data to shed light on this crippling condition, which impacts one in seven women.

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  • New HeadCheck app for concussion

    Wednesday, 14 August 2024 

    More than 100 concussion experts across the country have collaborated in a groundbreaking Australian Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (AUS-mTBI) study, so volunteers can now monitor their concussion symptoms via a newly revised HeadCheck app.

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  • Vale Adjunct Professor John Bancroft

    Tuesday, 06 August 2024 
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July

  • Australia's RN Blueprint

    Tuesday, 23 July 2024 

    The NCRIS Health Group warmly welcomes the release of Australia’s RNA Blueprint by the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources.

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  • New webinar recordings

    Tuesday, 16 July 2024 
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May

  • New Impact Stories

    Wednesday, 29 May 2024 


    Understanding road crash injuries and Stopping respiratory virus spread

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  • National Health Data Hub launched for research projects

    Wednesday, 15 May 2024 

    The AIHW launched the National Health Data Hub (NHDH) mid-May 2024. The PHRN National Master Linkage Key initiative has been a pivotal factor in delivering the NHDH linked data.

    The NHDH, formerly known as the National Integrated Health Services Information (NHISI) analytical asset, marks a significant advance in Australia's healthcare data infrastructure, facilitating streamlined access to critical health information for research purposes. 

    The NHDH is a national linked data resource, encompassing a comprehensive array of health data including data about admitted patient care, emergency department visits, immunisation, aged care, Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and mortality data. 

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March

  • Linkage Learning Webinar: Australia's Urban Health Indicators project

    Thursday, 28 March 2024 

    In this webinar, Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) director Professor Pascal Perez explains the Australian Urban Health Indicator project (AusUrb-HI) project, a collaboration between NCRIS facilities (AURIN, PHRN and ARDC) and researchers from QUT, UWA and RMIT.

    AusUrb-HI seeks to facilitate access to restricted linked population health data and generate a new high-value data asset, the Heat Health Vulnerability Indicator, which integrates population health data, demographic determinants, environment, and urban morphology parameters into weighted spatial layers of heat exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Efforts to collect this data and develop this indicator have included comprehensive measures to protect personal information, and will allow researchers to understand in greater detail the relationships between human health and the built environment.

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  • Community views on the secondary use of GP data

    Thursday, 14 March 2024 

    PHRN's Dr Felicity Flack co-authored this new article on Exploring Community Views on Sharing General Practice Data for Secondary Purposes.

    The project and published study focused on understanding community perspectives on sharing general practice data for secondary purposes.

    The findings shed light on the importance of addressing key considerations and building trust within the community when utilising general practice data for broader applications. This research has significant implications for quality assurance, evaluation, health service planning, and further research endeavours in the healthcare sector.

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February

  • Canada HDRN story on PHRNs metadata platform

    Wednesday, 21 February 2024 

    "In response to increasing demand for linked data from researchers, governments and policy makers, Australia’s  Population Health Research Network (PHRN) launched its Metadata Platform, a centralised platform to help researchers explore datasets that are available for data linkage research across the country...."

    Read the full story here: Canada HDRN's story on PHRNs metadata platform 

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  • Linkage Learning Webinar: Metadata Platform

    Wednesday, 14 February 2024 

    Learn all about PHRN’s new Metadata Platform in our first Webinar for 2024.

    Our new web-based metadata platform helps researchers quickly identify what linked datasets are available for research across Australia. It has a search, browse and filter capability and presents asset metadata in a standardised format, enabling researchers to better evaluate the suitability of datasets across jurisdictions.

    Held Wednesday, 21 February 2024.

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January

  • New online researcher training

    Thursday, 18 January 2024 

    PHRN’s new online course provides participants with the knowledge and skills required to plan linked data projects and successfully navigate the application and approval process.

    The free self-paced course takes around an hour to complete. It covers the types of data that are commonly available for linkage, the benefits and constraints of administrative data for research, a basic understanding of the data linkage process, and guidance on design and feasibility. It also details the application and approval process for each jurisdiction, using a standardised format and provides guidance for costs and timeframes.