David Ford
Professor and Co-Director of SAIL Databank.
Project: Genomics Partnership Wales (GPW)
In July 2017, the Genomics for Precision Medicine Strategy was launched by Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, and sets out Welsh Government’s ambitious plan “to create a sustainable, internationally-competitive environment for genetics and genomics to improve health and healthcare provision for the people of Wales”.
Genomics Partnership Wales (GPW) – Partneriaeth Genomeg Cymru – has been formed to establish a united approach to genomics in Wales and represents a number of organisations across several disciplines coming together to deliver a programme of work that will enable the ambition and commitment laid out in the Genomics Strategy to be realised.
Key organisations include Welsh Government, the All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Wales Gene Park, Public Health Wales, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Higher Education Institutions in Wales as well as other stakeholders and collaborators.
The GPW project is part of the global project ""The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative""
Project: SAIL Databank.
The project is a collaboration between Swansea University’s SAIL Databank, King’s College London, health technology company ZOE, BREATHE – the Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health, and is supported by Health Data Research UK. The app, developed by researchers at King’s College London and ZOE, the COVID-19 monitoring app has already been downloaded by nearly 2 million ‘stay-at-home scientists’ across the UK who are using it to track their daily health and any potential coronavirus symptoms. The app is also widely being used by healthcare and hospital workers. The app acts like an early-warning radar system, providing vital information about the symptoms and spread of COVID-19. In turn, this supports the effective deployment of limited NHS resources such as healthcare personnel, testing kits or ventilators to where they are most likely to be needed. Regular downloads of anonymised data from the app will be securely delivered through BREATHE – the Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health into SAIL Databank, making it accessible to NHS decision-makers and academic researchers. This also means that the app data can be linked together with other COVID-19 datasets generated by the NHS digital transformation unit, NHSX, and others.
The research team at King’s College London are continually analysing the data to generate new insights about the disease and its progression. For example, they have discovered that loss of smell or taste are more likely to be an early symptom of COVID-19 than fever. Frequent science updates and maps showing the top-level geographical distribution of symptoms around the UK are available at covid.joinzoe.com.
Project: Genomics Partnership Wales (GPW)
In July 2017, the Genomics for Precision Medicine Strategy was launched by Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, and sets out Welsh Government’s ambitious plan “to create a sustainable, internationally-competitive environment for genetics and genomics to improve health and healthcare provision for the people of Wales”.
Genomics Partnership Wales (GPW) – Partneriaeth Genomeg Cymru – has been formed to establish a united approach to genomics in Wales and represents a number of organisations across several disciplines coming together to deliver a programme of work that will enable the ambition and commitment laid out in the Genomics Strategy to be realised.
Key organisations include Welsh Government, the All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Wales Gene Park, Public Health Wales, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Higher Education Institutions in Wales as well as other stakeholders and collaborators.
The GPW project is part of the global project ""The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative""
Project: SAIL Databank.
The project is a collaboration between Swansea University’s SAIL Databank, King’s College London, health technology company ZOE, BREATHE – the Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health, and is supported by Health Data Research UK. The app, developed by researchers at King’s College London and ZOE, the COVID-19 monitoring app has already been downloaded by nearly 2 million ‘stay-at-home scientists’ across the UK who are using it to track their daily health and any potential coronavirus symptoms. The app is also widely being used by healthcare and hospital workers. The app acts like an early-warning radar system, providing vital information about the symptoms and spread of COVID-19. In turn, this supports the effective deployment of limited NHS resources such as healthcare personnel, testing kits or ventilators to where they are most likely to be needed. Regular downloads of anonymised data from the app will be securely delivered through BREATHE – the Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health into SAIL Databank, making it accessible to NHS decision-makers and academic researchers. This also means that the app data can be linked together with other COVID-19 datasets generated by the NHS digital transformation unit, NHSX, and others.
The research team at King’s College London are continually analysing the data to generate new insights about the disease and its progression. For example, they have discovered that loss of smell or taste are more likely to be an early symptom of COVID-19 than fever. Frequent science updates and maps showing the top-level geographical distribution of symptoms around the UK are available at covid.joinzoe.com.
Country:
UK