📢 Closing soon! The call for papers for our IJPDS Focus Issue People and the Criminal Justice System closes 31 October 2026. Research using population-based and administrative data is welcome. Find out more: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ca… #PopulationData #CriminalJustice

Australia has many of the building blocks for a national population data resource. A new case study explores how research infrastructure, policy frameworks and partnerships could help connect data to improve health and wellbeing. Read: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

Almost 3.72 million adults. One national linked data resource. A new cohort profile explores how disability and living arrangements relate to COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland, with potential applications beyond the pandemic. Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi explains ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

What happens to the health of children who experience foster care as they grow older? The CanFos data resource links Canadian Census, health & mortality records to explore long-term outcomes and opportunities for better support Read: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne… #fostercare #Canada

1.4 million people. 51 million healthcare visit-events. 62 million medication exposure records. A new Data Resource Profile published in IJPDS brings together Thailand's routine healthcare data to support longitudinal diabetes research. READ: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ar…

AI doing the heavy lifting. Humans providing the expertise. New research explores how large language models can help classify Canada's child care workforce using 57,135 Census responses. A promising approach to better workforce planning. Find out more: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

We know social circumstances affect health. But are hospitals recording them? New research examining 10,659 hospital admissions in Canada reveals gaps in how housing, employment and other social factors are documented in patient records. Find out more: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

🌟 IJPDS Editor's Pick! Dr Yang Lu selects research using graph theory to reconstruct complex patient journeys from linked hospital records. Includes journeyer, an open-source R package. doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i1… #IJPDS #HealthData researchgate.net/journal/Int… via @researchgate

🌟 IJPDS Editor's Pick Dr Emma Gordon selects new research exploring neurodevelopmental conditions among care-experienced children in Wales. Discover how linked data can help identify support needs. doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v11i1… researchgate.net/journal/Int… via @researchgate

Children don't live their lives in data silos. So why should their records? New research uses machine learning to link school and healthcare records in NYC, opening up opportunities to better understand children's health and education. ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

The UK has world-leading longitudinal studies, yet few are linked to children's social care records. A new review explores how connecting these datasets could improve our understanding of children's lives and the support they need. READ ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

No single Canadian study follows people across the entire life course 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿? New research explores potential of data harmonisation to unlock insights into lifelong health ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

Can Canada's existing health data tell us more about health across a lifetime? New IJPDS research identifies 14 studies covering 9m+ participants and explores how data harmonisation could bridge the gaps. Find Our More: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne… #LifeCourse #longitudinaldata

📢 Closing soon! The call for papers for our IJPDS Focus Issue: People and the Criminal Justice System closes 31 October 2026. Research using population-based and administrative data is welcome. Find out more here: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ca… #PopulationData #CriminalJustice

No single service holds the complete picture of a child's needs Linking health, education & social care records for almost 127,000 children reveals striking differences in recorded neurodevelopmental conditions among care-experienced children READ - ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

Linked data can reveal what local children & families need — but generating evidence isn't enough. New IJPDS research asks what early years decision-makers need to turn linked data insights into real-world policy and practice. 🔗 ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

📢 CALL DEADLINE EXTENDED There’s now more time to submit to the IJPDS Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Population Data Science 📅 New deadline: 11 December 2026 AI + population-level data + real-world societal challenges? Call Details: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ca… #AI

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵? A new study of 12,075 adults in South Korea found education the most consistent socioeconomic predictor of obesity, while current income showed a weaker association ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ar…

Publishing clinical codelists has improved research transparency and reproducibility — but which codelist should researchers use? A new IJPDS study finds considerable variation between published codelists for the same health conditions. 🔗 ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…

Researchers can lose months navigating data access requirements. Could making those rules machine-readable speed things up — without weakening governance? New research in IJPDS proposes a framework to do just that. 🔓 READ: ijpds.org/index.php/ijpds/ne…