Professor Lyons details his experiences of designing and implementing the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) system in Wales, UK and the underlying Secure eResearch Platform (SeRP), which now hosts some 30 globally accessible research initiatives. He show cases many influential studies using population linked data, or cohort data such as through the MRC’s Dementias Platform UK, data linkage for trials, developments in federated analysis and the potential for even greater international collaboration in multi-modal data analysis.
