Health Studies Catalog

Mapping and classifying health research data

What is the objective of the action?

The FReSH catalog aims to improve the inventory of non-interventional studies. To date, these studies have a low reporting rate.
Enable the identification of data from observational, interventional, and humanities and social science studies within a single catalog.

Who is it for ?

  • Research community
  • Research institutions
  • Healthcare companies
  • Public actors

Issues

The FReSH portal addresses the challenge of fragmented catalogs and access to health research data by offering a centralized, interdisciplinary platform. In line with the Open Science movement, it promotes the visibility and accessibility of research data.

Faced with the growing challenges of big data, FReSH enables researchers to:

  • discover data from various disciplinary fields,
  • identify relevant datasets,
  • reuse existing data to strengthen their analyses. 

FReSH aims to promote recognition of the work involved in collecting and documenting data, while encouraging data sharing in the interests of more collaborative health research. 

Description

FReSH will enable users to browse a vast catalog of data produced by health-related research.
The portal will provide tools tailored to the description of health research data. In addition, it will facilitate networking among research stakeholders through the data access request tool.

The Institute for Public Health Research is supporting the rollout of the portal.
The latest news about FReSH is available here.  

Roadmap

  • Third quarter of 2025

    Version 1 - Opening of the portal with the contribution interface. Migration of data from the French Epidemiology Portal.

  • from 2026

    Versions 2 and 3 – Evolution of the portal with the harvesting of clinical trial registries and disciplinary catalogs.