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The WHO Global Clinical Platform

The WHO Global Clinical Platform is a secure web-based database including individual-level, anonymized clinical data of patients from health facilities across the globe. It bridges the gap between epidemiology and clinical care, improving our understanding of the clinical characteristics and disease course among patients with suspected, probable, or confirmed emerging infectious diseases.

 

 

 

 

Purpose

 

The Global Clinical Platform enhances the capability of Member States and health facilities to capture and understand important data relating to their patients. By using a standardized data collection system, it is possible to analyse changes over time and across global regions.

Key questions raised by healthcare workers and those developing policy can be addressed, including:

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What is the natural history of disease?

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How well do therapeutic interventions perform in the real world?

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How does clinical presentation change over time?

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What are the important risk factors for severe illness and poor outcomes?

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Are vulnerable populations differently affected, including children, pregnant people, and those with immunocompromise?

 

 

 

Governance

 

The Global Clinical Platform is run by the clinical and data teams in the Healthcare Readiness Unit of Health Emergencies Programme of WHO. It is supported by a WHO technical advisory group (TAG). The list of TAG members’ along with their biographies for this term can be accessed here.

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Data privacy

The WHO Global Clinical Platform has approval from the WHO Ethics Review Committee to collect and analyse data that is anonymized prior to submission. Data collected is anonymized (i.e., strictly stripped of any personal identifiers) clinical and/or patient data and/or information related to patients.

 

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Data analysis

Data are used in accordance with statistical analysis plans (SAP) – check the specific disease areas for these. New SAP production is guided by data contributors, the technical advisory group, and the needs of emerging infectious outbreaks.

 

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Data ownership

Data are owned by the primary contributors. Please refer to the terms of use for data ownership for details. Data contributors can publish their data, including as peer-reviewed scientific outputs. You can access the terms of use here.

 

 

 

World Health Data Hub

 

The Global Clinical Platform leverages WHO's World Health Data Hub (WHDH), which provides a best-in-class, flexible and scalable data infrastructure creating a strong foundation for the Global Clinical Platform to evolve.

The World Health Data Hub (WHDH) is the end-to-end data suite for WHO. From data collection to data science to dissemination. The Hub is guided by WHO’s data principles to support WHO teams to leverage the most moderns technologies addressing data needs:

 

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Secure, compliant and elastic data repositories

 

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Advanced data science environments

 

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Secure Region and Member State communications platform

 

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Public data catalog (coming soon)

 

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Elegant, accessible and on point dissemination system

 

 

 

 

Contributors and partnerships

Thousands of healthcare facilities and collaborators worldwide have contributed clinical data to the WHO Clinical Data Platform. The WHO would like to extend sincere thanks to all the contributing facilities and collaborators. 

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65+
Countries

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1.5 M
Data Points

 

How to contribute

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Review the Terms of Use of the platform

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Create your profile by registering here.

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You will receive an email with login credentials or further instructions if contributing from an existing database.

 

 

 

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For any additional questions, please contact: global_clinical_platform@who.int