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About the event

The British cohort studies are a unique and free resource for health researchers. These multidisciplinary studies have been following different generations of people their whole lives. Over that time, the studies have gathered information from cohort members on a range of physical health conditions and diagnoses.

These health data can be analysed alongside other rich information about cohort members’ lives – their social background, education, income, mental health, relationships and more.

To support researchers to conduct analyses comparing different generations, we are releasing a series of new datasets which ‘harmonise’ the physical health information in the five national cohort studies. The first two of these upcoming data releases cover asthma and diabetes measures.

These new data releases will help researchers to more accurately and easily compare the data collected from multiple studies.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about these exciting new, free resources, and how you could use them in your research.

What’s covered in the event?

In this webinar we’ll introduce the new harmonised asthma and diabetes measures in five national cohort studies, soon to be available to researchers. We’ll also update you on plans to harmonise other physical health measures across these five studies.

You’ll hear about the methods we’re using to harmonise these measures, and we’ll share some examples of substantive research we’re currently conducting.

Who should attend?

This webinar will be useful to researchers with an interest in health issues, including risk factors for health conditions and impacts of physical health on other aspects of life. It will be of particular interest to those wishing to conduct cross-cohort analyses.

Why take part?

• Discover the harmonised asthma and diabetes measures in five different cohort studies.
• Learn about other health data releases in the pipeline.
• Find out how to access the new datasets and other free resources to support your own research.
• Hear some early findings from recent cross-cohort analysis using the new data.
• Put your questions to our expert panel.

Which studies are covered?

• MRC National Survey of Health and Development
• National Child Development Study
• 1970 British Cohort Study
• Next Steps
• Millennium Cohort Study

Who is presenting?

• Laura Gimeno is a Research Assistant at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
• Rebecca Hardy is Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at Loughborough University.
• Martina Narayanan is a Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.