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The BeYond-COVID project (BY-COVID) aims to make COVID-19 data accessible to scientists in laboratories but also to anyone who can use it, such as medical staff in hospitals or government officials.

Pursuing to go beyond SARS-CoV-2 data, the project will serve as the groundwork to make data from other infectious diseases open and accessible to everyone.

The BY-COVID project strives to simplify data access and reuse through four key ‘pillars’:

1. Mobilise data: ensuring ...

Background information

Task 5.2 aims to demonstrate how mobilisation of real-world population, health and care data across national borders can provide answers to policy-relevant research questions. Eventually, it aims to prototype a workflow that is standard for population health research. Here, the research question is approached by identifying a causal effect that allows to evaluate a public health intervention. As such, a methodology for approaching causal inference when conducting ...