Welcome
This platform captures and documents technical information to support researchers to accelerate their analysis using the Our Future Health resource
About the Our Future Health research programme
We’re bringing together data from up to 5 million adults in the UK. Registered researchers can request access to this data and analyse it to discover new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.
The programme aims to provide two main resources for health research:
an observational dataset for basic science, epidemiological discovery and aetiological research
a cohort of participants who can be contacted for translational research
Find out more about our programme in the Cohort Profile: Our Future Health publication in the International Journal of Epidemiology (Volume 54, Issue 6, December 2025) or have a look on the Programme design and recruitment page.
About the Our Future Health Trusted Research Environment (TRE)
The Our Future Health Trusted Research Environment (TRE) is built on the DNAnexus Platform. You can access information about the DNAnexus platform in the DNAnexus documentation.
Visit the TRE documentation for end-to-end guidance on working within the Our Future Health TRE, covering user onboarding, governance, and secure access requirements alongside practical instructions for using the platform. It details how to discover and extract cohort data, run analyses via tools such as Jupyter notebooks or command line interfaces, and manage files through controlled mechanisms like the Airlock. It also includes operational and technical reference material, such as environment structure, permissions, and best practices, so researchers can reproducibly and securely conduct analyses within the TRE.
Visit our public github repository for example code scripts in the form of interactive Python notebooks (.ipynb), inlcuding python, R and bash notebooks, to help you get started with the resource.
The available data
Contains registration, consent and baseline demographic information collected across all consented participants.
Contains self-reported health information, details about participants' household, socioeconomic status, work and education history, lifestyle and family history.
Contains single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data extracted from blood and made available in two different file formats (pVCF and BGEN). Imputed genetic data now also available.
Contains admitted patient care, outpatient, emergency attendances, cancer registry, dispensed medicines in primary care, and death registration records provided by the National Health Service (NHS) in England.
Contains baseline physical health measurements for participants taken at their clinic appointment by trained staff, including blood pressure and point-of-care lipid profiles for a subset of participants.
Contains geographic information derived from participants’ self-reported address at the time of registration to the Our Future Health programme.
Information on the current data release, including data dictionaries and coding files, is available on the Current data release page or via the Data and cohort section of our website.
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