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An Academy of Finland Academy Programme, Health from Cohorts and Biobanks (COHORT), has become a global forerunner in the collaborative use of existing research data. Over the past two decades, Finnish research on health promotion has reached a very high level in global terms. In part, this has come about thanks to the excellent research data used in programmes such as COHORT, where researchers study population group cohorts to gain evidence on the importance of lifestyles to health.
COHORT applied scientific renewal, the approach backed by the Academy s strategy, in a novel way. It supported the integration of ongoing projects by bringing together existing birth cohorts into new, useful entities. This increased collaboration between basic research, clinical research, public health research and research into the healthcare system, improving the scientific and societal impact of the field.