Research impact webinar:
THE NATIONAL ECHO DATABASE OF AUSTRALIA

Join us as Professor Geoff Strange discusses how linked data is advancing research into Structural Heart Disease using linked data with echocardiography.

Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 11am AWST, 2pm AEDT

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***CAREER OPPORTUNITY***

Seeking a Strategic Planning Support Specialist, part-time, Perth, WA

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Closing Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Sharing a great success story from SAS featuring Sax Institute’s SURE platform – demonstrating how secure data and AI can help solve real-world public health challenges.

🔎 “Solving real-life public health challenges using data and AI”

📢 www.sas.com/en_us/custom...

REGISTRATIONS are OPEN for IPDLN 2026 in the Netherlands!

Share your population data linkage insights with others from around the globe.

Early bird deadline is 31 March.

Register here: ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...

Your health data, their research – Is that OK? Part 2 - PHRN When health data can save lives, what influence should the community have on its use? This is the central question of “social license”—the ongoing acceptance and approval of an organization’s activiti...

When health data can save lives, how much say should the public have in how it’s used?

PHRN & HDRN Canada hosted workshops with researchers, policymakers, health-care providers and members of the public to explore community attitudes.

🔎https://bit.ly/45mYWxH

Your health data, their research – Is that OK? Part 1 - PHRN Using health data in research promises clear benefits: better patient care, better health system planning, and a deeper understanding of disease and wellbeing. But it also raises concerns – about priv...

Research teams from PHRN and @ HDRN Canada examined key differences in how Canadians and Australians view health data use and governance.

Check out Part 1 in our Social Licence series bit.ly/4aJbOBR

Thank you to Professor Ian Smith who joined PHRN's Board in 2017 and became Chair in 2020. His steady leadership ensured continuity and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

We wish him every success in the next chapter!

We are pleased to announce Professor Nicholas Fisk AM FAHMS FAICD as PHRN’s new Board Chair from January 2026.

A clinical scientist and senior university leader with expertise in maternal-fetal medicine and developmental biology, Professor Fisk brings extensive research and advisory experience.

Urban greening for health - PHRN On average, someone is hospitalised for a heart attack every 9 minutes, according to the National Heart Foundation of Australia. And the toll on taxpayers runs into billions each year. Reduced cardiov...

Few studies have tested whether the health benefits of urban greening lead to lower healthcare costs. New research featured in the latest PHRN Impact Story, "Urban greening for health", sheds light on the question.

📑 www.phrn.org.au/impact-stori...

#DataLinkage #HealthResearch #NCRISImpact

PHRN webinar: Data Utility Comparison Study (DUCkS), 3 December 2025 YouTube video by PHRN

Watch the video from yesterday's webinar on the Data Utility Comparison Study (DUCkS) about how linked administrative data can add value to clinical trials?

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhr...

PHRN article page 64 in Inspire magazine by Research Australia

How do we unlock the potential of linked data for clinical trials?

Read our article in the latest INSPIRE magazine, page 64, by Research Australia: 📑 bit.ly/4iuHPQ1

hashtag#DataLinkage hashtag#HealthResearch hashtag#Inspire hashtag#ResearchAustralia

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Are you curious about how linked administrative data can add value to clinical trials? Join next week's webinar.

Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 11am AWST, 2pm AEDT
Register here: bit.ly/4oL7hm9

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS

The Population Health Research Network (PHRN) is offering travel scholarships of up to $5,000 to help Australian early career researchers attend the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) Conference in Rotterdam, 13–16 July 2026.

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Join our WEBINAR on the Data Utility Comparison Study (DUCkS).

Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 11am AWST, 2pm AEST

REGISTER HERE bit.ly/4oL7hm9

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 & 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 #IPDLN2026! Deadline for Submissions December 14 IPDLN Conference: July 13–16, 2026 | Erasmus University, Rotterdam Visit: https://ipdln.org/call-for-papers-international-population-data-linkage-conference-2026/

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 & 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 #IPDLN2026!

Deadline for Submissions December 14

IPDLN Conference: July 13–16, 2026 | Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Visit: ipdln.org/call-for-pap...

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Honouring International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science, PHRN’s Dr Kate Miller joined a panel discussion today of Real World Databases and the impact of their applications across Australia, China, and Hong Kong.

The PHRN welcomes Professor Nicholas Fisk AM FAHMS to our Board.

As a clinician-scientist, opinion leader and health/university executive, Prof Fisk also brings extensive experience from board and advisory roles across research, health, and industry sectors.

See our Board Members bit.ly/4olYqHr

Yesterday, CSIRO Futures launched the 'Valuation of increased coordination in Australian biobanking.’
bit.ly/483FbgV

It was developed in collaboration with research and government partners, including the NCRIS Health Group (PHRN, Phenomics Australia, Bioplatforms Australia, NIF, TIA, EMBL Aus)

PHRN joins critical conversations about collaborative international research infrastructure at the 2025 Australian and European Health Research Infrastructure Symposium in Prato, Italy this week.

#NCRISImpact

WATCH this VIDEO (bit.ly/4gbxU0i) from our CROSS-Link WEBINAR.

Learn how clinical registries can help design a data linkage governance framework to enable the routine updating of administrative data within Australian clinical registries while meeting privacy, legal, and ethical standards.

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Celebrating National Science Week!

To learn how PHRN’s national data linkage network enables real-world impact visit our website:
www.phrn.org.au/impact/impac...

#NCRISImpact #DataLinkage #HealthResearch

WEBINAR: 3 September, 11:30am AEST, 9:30am AWST

The CROSS-Link project aims to design a data linkage governance framework, enabling routine updating of Australian clinical registries with administrative data while meeting privacy, legal, and ethical standards.

Register here: bit.ly/4lpkeQm

Alcohol-related harm in Australia's young people is vastly underreported.

Dr Scott Sims' PhD research at UWA explored alcohol-related harm in young people, using longitudinal linked data to inform policy, prevention and practice...read more bit.ly/47glsde

Web-based price calculators now available for SA-NT and SURE!
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Handy for:
·  grant applications – budget for research proposals
·  financial feasibility – assessing project affordability
·  project scope – estimating costs based on study design

Congratulations to A/Professor Hannah Moore OAM and her team on winning a $1.5 million NHMRC grant to lead the RISE Project!

Using real-world data and advanced mathematical modelling, her team will evaluate the health and economic impact of different RSV immunisation strategies.

Call for editors!

The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) is welcoming applications to join the IJPDS international Editorial Board.

See www.phrn.org.au/about/career...

Deadline: Monday 1st August 2025

Major funding win for “The Research Ethics Plus AI” 4-yr PHRN-supported project!

Congratulations to the research team from UOW, UTAS, Macquarie University, NSW Health, USYD.

The NHMRC $1M funding boost will match partner contributions, bringing the project’s funds to a total of $2.24M.

Australians knowledge of general practice data Relatively little is known about public understanding of the secondary use of general practice data. This study investigated what the Australian public knows.

Great to see 'Australians’ knowledge of general practice data sharing: findings from a focus group study and cross-sectional survey' published in this month’s Australian Journal of General Practice.

📖 bit.ly/3GqJFCG

#DataLinkage #HealthResearch

Colleagues, old and new, joined us to celebrate 15 years of PHRN and pay tribute to our fabulous Chief Executive, Dr Merran Smith, who is retiring.

See photos from the day and a flyer of our highlights.

📸 bit.ly/3SOGGXo

UWA and the PHRN Board are pleased to announce the appointment of A/Prof Rebecca Glauert as the new PHRN Chief Executive.

A/Prof Glauert is passionate about translating data-informed evidence into life-changing health and wellbeing interventions.