Five ways to enhance the diversity and quality of health data

Paola Quattroni; Ash Routen; Joe Alderman; Claire Argent; Samuel Cusworth; Hajira Dambha-Miller; Rose Drummond; Alastair Denniston; Poushali Ganguli; Nicola Hamilton; Uwaye Ideh; Sara Khalid; Aden Kwok; Elinor Laws; Xiaoxuan Liu; Vahe Nafilyan; Jo Palmer; Marta Pineda-Moncusi; Alexia Sampri; Holly Tibble; Fatemeh Torabi; Jonathan Valabhji; Diana Withrow; Claire Welsh; Angela M. Wood; Ashley Akbari; Kamlesh Khunti

doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03545-6

Five ways to enhance the diversity and quality of health data

Paola Quattroni
, Ash Routen
, Joe Alderman
, Claire Argent
, Samuel Cusworth
, Hajira Dambha-Miller
, Rose Drummond
, Alastair Denniston
, Poushali Ganguli
, Nicola Hamilton
, Uwaye Ideh
, Sara Khalid
, Aden Kwok
, Elinor Laws
, Xiaoxuan Liu
, Vahe Nafilyan
, Jo Palmer
, Marta Pineda-Moncusi
, Alexia Sampri
, Holly Tibble

Fatemeh Torabi, Jonathan Valabhji, Diana Withrow, Claire Welsh, Angela M. Wood, Ashley Akbari, Kamlesh Khunti^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The UK Health Data Research Alliance presents five recommendations for improving data collection for inclusive health research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1747-1750
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Medicine
Volume	31
Issue number	6
Early online date	24 Feb 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03545-6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2025

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Quattroni, P., Routen, A., Alderman, J., Argent, C., Cusworth, S., Dambha-Miller, H., Drummond, R., Denniston, A., Ganguli, P., Hamilton, N., Ideh, U., Khalid, S., Kwok, A., Laws, E., Liu, X., Nafilyan, V., Palmer, J., Pineda-Moncusi, M., Sampri, A., ... Khunti, K. (2025). Five ways to enhance the diversity and quality of health data. Nature Medicine, 31(6), 1747-1750. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03545-6

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Five ways to enhance the diversity and quality of health data

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