In part 8 of our webinar, Dr Tristan Millington (University of Edinburgh) tells us about an ongoing partnership between DaC-VaP-2 and researchers at the VigiVac project, part of Fiocruz, aka the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil.

Where can I find out more about..
DaC-VaP-2? - https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/eave-ii/connected-projects/dac-vap-2
DaC-VaP? - https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/eave-ii/connected-projects/dac-vap
Fiocruz? - https://portal.fiocruz.br/en

Links to mentioned papers:
1) Vaccine Effectiveness of Two-Dose BNT162b2 Over Time Against COVID-19 Symptomatic Infection and Severe Cases Among Adolescents: Test Negative Design Case Control Studies in Brazil and Scotland - https://edin.ac/3zFrTUR
2) BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination uptake, safety, effectiveness and waning in children and young people aged 12–17 years in Scotland - https://edin.ac/3E1lkjl

This video was produced and subtitled by: Gabriella Linning

About the webinar
The webinar titled "National Data Assets & Opportunities for Collaboration across the UK Nations and Beyond" took place online on the 22 September 2022. The webinar aimed to raise awareness of the innovative work done by the DaC-VaP-2 project, a collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh that included institutions and contributors from all four UK nations. Here, researchers from Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales provided a brief overviews of the national data assets they used to provide population-level data on COVID-19, in order to conduct pooled UK-wide analyses. The webinar also touched on how the team went about conducting these analyses, developing domestic and international partnerships and incorporating patient and public views into their research.

Acknowledgements
We at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh would like to thank our colleagues at the University of Oxford for helping us to plan and organise this event.

We would also like to thank Health Data Research UK and the Office of National Statics for the funding provided through the National Core Studies: Data and Connectivity initiative, as well as the Alan Turning Institute for their support.

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