Background: The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project is a multistudy platform
integrating the British Columbia Generations Project, Alberta's Tomorrow Project, the Ontario …

Background Proper understanding of the roles of, and interactions between genetic, lifestyle,
environmental and psycho-social factors in determining the risk of development and/or …

Integration of cohort studies allows taking advantage of already collected information to
increase the sample size to study uncommon exposures, rare diseases, less strong …

Optimizing research on the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) involves
implementing initiatives maximizing the use of the available cohort study data; achieving …

For the past three decades, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has
issued a national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over each 10-year …

Cancer epidemiologists have a long history of combining data sets in pooled analyses, often
harmonizing heterogeneous data from multiple studies into 1 large data set. Although there …

Since the late 1970s, the federal Healthy People Initiative has been a visible component of
the United States' approach to improving population health. In each decade, a new version …

There has been a recent surge in scientific data collection in the healthcare domain (1).
Several large-scale cohort studies have recently been or are currently being conducted …

Background Vast sample sizes are often essential in the quest to disentangle the complex
interplay of the genetic, lifestyle, environmental and social factors that determine the …

Linkage of data collected by large Canadian cohort studies with provincially managed
administrative health databases can offer very interesting avenues for multidisciplinary and …