@article{57671e3448b04feb8ecebbb60b2f9480,
title = "Towards a European “Cohort Moonshot”: revisiting the long-term strategy to support health research of tomorrow",
keywords = "Cohort, Digital Health, Epidemiology, Health Data, Precision Health, Public Health",
author = "Guy Fagherazzi",
note = "Funding Information: As such, we should move from a sporadic and fragmented funding mechanism to a continuous support principle for data and sample generation in the long run. The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study is a perfect example. Started in 1990 by the IARC and WHO, EPIC is still one of the largest cohort studies in the world today, with more than half a million participants recruited across 10 European countries []. Initially funded by the European Commission and national sources, the follow-up of the participants stopped in 2015. The cohort is still used by the EPIC consortium today (more than 1800 peer-reviewed publications indexed in Pubmed used EPIC data), but its value will inevitably decrease over time without a substantial, sustainable funding mechanism to update the cohort and expand the data and sample collection. What will likely become a waste of invaluable research data and samples in the mid-term could be turned, with some vision, into the basis of a long term, European Health cohort. ",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/s10654-022-00939-5",
language = "English",
volume = "38",
pages = "121--122",
journal = "European Journal of Epidemiology",
issn = "0393-2990",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}