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Our Future Health has now reached a critical milestone with over a million people from across the UK having completed all steps of the joining process. This makes it now the largest longitudinal cohort study in the world.
The programme aims to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. With eventually up to five million volunteers right across the UK, the goal is to create one of the most detailed pictures ever of people’s health. Our Future Health already has the largest ever number of participants from under-represented groups in a health research programme.
To coincide with this milestone, the SMC invited Dr Raghib Ali OBE, Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, to brief journalists on the socio-demographic and health characteristics of the first million participants for the first time and the impact such a large and diverse cohort will have on the prevention, detection and treatment of diseases.
Speakers included:
Dr Raghib Ali OBE, Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health
Professor Michael Cook, Executive Director of Science, Our Future Health
Professor Dame Anna F Dominiczak, Chief Scientific Adviser for Health, Scottish Government