Health studies catalog

Mapping and qualifying health research data

What is the objective of the action?

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 human and social science studies within a single catalog.

Who is it for ?

  • Research community
  • Research institutions
  • Healthcare companies
  • Public stakeholders

Issues

The FReSH portal responds to the challenge of fragmented catalogs and access to health research data by offering acentralized, interdisciplinary platform. As part of the Open Science dynamic, it promotes the visibility and accessibility of research data.

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

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

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

Description

FReSH will enable navigation through a vast catalog of data produced by health-related research.
The portal will provide tools adapted to the description of health research data. In addition, it will promote networking between research players through the data access request tool.

The Institut pour la Recherche en Santé Publique is supporting the portal's rollout.
The FReSH news can be accessed here.

Roadmap

  • 3rd quarter 2025

    Version 1 - Opening the portal with the contribution interface. Data migration from the French Epidemiology Portal.

  • from 2026

    Version 2 and 3 - Portal evolution with the harvesting of clinical trial registries and disciplinary catalogs.