News postsBBMRI ISIS – a new service for biobank researchers Why register-based research? VR workshop on development of e-infrastructures 24 May SCB and SoS information on registers and register-based research – October 8, 2013 Project presentations 11 April by SFO-Epi awardees at KI Reminder – EuroEpi/NordicEpi conference in AArhus, August 11-14, 2013 Sharing data among the Nordic countries Subscribe to newsletter from BBMRI.se Register-based statistics in the Nordic countries, review of best practices OECD report on Data and Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences SINGS presented in SVEPET Swedish efforts to secure future register-based research within the EU MEB tips on how to structure and document research projects Provide Bengt Westerberg with your views on how to facilitate Swedish register-based research! New VR SIMSAM grants, application dead-line 17 April Conference on Swedish Quality Registries, 16 May at Arlanda Lund spring lectures and seminars on Local Spatial Statistics New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics conference, Brussels 5-7 March 2013 Committee directives on prerequisites for register-based research The new EU data protection regulation proposal threatens future register-based research | SIMSAM is short for ”Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in the Social And Medical Sciences”, an initiative supported by the Swedish Research Council via its Committee for Research Infrastructure. By giving priority to interdisciplinary, innovative register-based research, SIMSAM will contribute to better public health and increased knowledge of social issues, for instance which factors in childhood that result in increased risk for obesity or cancer later in life. The initiative is also intended to promote improved and expanded use of registers in research and to increase the knowledge of how registry research is organized in Sweden and internationally. Six research nodes and one graduate school have been granted funding for five years from december 2008 until november 2013.
An information booklet on the importance and benefits of register-based research has been produced under the management of SIMSAM-INFRA. It contains examples of SIMSAM’s accomplishments and ongoing work in order to improve health and living conditions for the population by using existing Swedish registers. The booklet is meant to be informative for policy makers and the general public and perhaps it will also encourage increased scientific collaboration.
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Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social And Medical sciences
Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social And Medical sciences
