Challenge: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) is a national data asset of multi-wave longitudinal survey data of women’s physical and mental health and their use of health services. ALSWH is core to multiple research initiatives, including the Centre for Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Disease (CRE WaND). The key challenge is to efficiently & securely manage the provision of the fundamental research data & the related linked heterogeneous datasets, to a large number of specifically authorised researchers, to conduct varying individual research projects.

Data: The collection is made of 32 datasets from 4 cohorts. Beyond the fundamental data, these studies utilise multiple heterogeneous national datasets that, depending on data custodian approval, can be linked to these fundamental datasets. There are currently 51 linkable datasets and 14 derived datasets in development.

Solution: SeRP and KeyPoint will provide the required scalable data governance and secure data analysis environment to meet data custodians’ requirements.

Transformation: In addition to greater geographic accessibility enabling more research outputs, the platform will drastically decrease the time for data custodian approval and increase the speed of the deployment for individual projects, enabling a faster start of the research and accelerating research outcomes.