Health Data Australia

Find and share health data for research.
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Health Data Australia is a national catalogue of Australian clinical trials data designed to facilitate access, sharing and reuse of health research data. 

Health and medical researchers can use the platform to discover and request access to data for their own research, or to register descriptions of their data to enhance discoverability by others.

Researchers can:

  • discover clinical trial data
  • find information about the data
  • request access to the data via a request form.

What You Can Do With Health Data Australia

On Health Data Australia, you can search for and request access to clinical trials datasets collected across Australia by universities, medical research institutes, clinical trials networks and health services. You can also find information that helps you understand those datasets, such as study protocols and data dictionaries.

The data is held and managed by the organisations responsible for the clinical trials. You can use Health Data Australia to submit an access request to the data owner.

Health Data Australia was launched in July 2023, and we are continuously incorporating new datasets, features and enhancements. Over the next 5 years, as part of the ARDCโ€™s People Research Data Commons, we will expand Health Data Australia to incorporate a wider array of data collections from different health research studies, as well as government and health service data.

Share Your Clinical Trial Data

Clinical trialists and data custodians can use Health Data Australia to share clinical trial data according to standards designed by the Australian clinical trials community and fulfil data sharing requirements that come with public funding. To learn more, contact us.

Health Data Australia provides a framework for researchers across Australia to:

  • gain increased recognition and visibility for their research
  • extend the life of their research
  • meet their responsibilities to share data from publicly funded research projects
  • facilitate new collaborations to expand their research impact.

It is anticipated that this will lead to:

  • increased ability to understand and answer specific questions and generate new hypotheses
  • more publications and citations, new students, successful grants and a sense of helping others across the country
  • better access to guidance, standards and governance around data sharing.

Contributors

Health Data Australia was developed by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) in partnership with the health research community across Australia via the Health Studies Australian National Data Asset program (HeSANDA).

Over 70 health research organisations across Australia, organised into 9 nodes, contribute to Health Data Australia. 

A map of the Health Data Australia nodes across Australia. Health Data Australia contains contributions from 72 health research organisations across the country organised into 9 nodes
A map of Health Data Australia node locations. Image: ARDC

Reach out to your most relevant node via the links below.

Learn more about HeSANDA.

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