BY-COVID comes to an end with final policy brief

29 October 2024

The BY-COVID project has published policy recommendations for using research data infrastructure to support sustainable global pandemic preparedness.

Six key takeaways have been identified:

Encourage the use of existing large scale international repositories of data of all types - sequencing, imaging, social and clinical - to maximise re-use and optimise long term sustainability through scale.
Invest in the ability to responsively create views and indexes of prior and current data based around outbreaks, pandemics and pathogens of concern, allowing the dynamic creation of national and international resources in response to immediate public health needs.
Develop national data hub approaches for the analysis of surveillance and outbreak data which re-use international toolkits of data standards, software, workflows and brokering to large scale repositories.
Encourage the development of partnerships between e-Infrastructure and High Performance Computing providers to ensure emergency capacity is available to host and expand data analysis workflows on demand.
Support the creation of specialist working groups on pathogen research within each Research Infrastructure, ready to support outbreak response with high quality data as the need arises.
Build global connections to exchange best practices, knowledge and infrastructure strategies.

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Contact: by-covid-admin@elixir-europe.org