Health Data Australia

Find and share health data for research.

Visit Health Data Australia

Discover clinical trial data

Search for clinical trial data from 72 Australian health research organisations

Request access to clinical trials data

Request access to data for secondary research via the request form

Share your datasets for discovery

Fulfil data sharing requirements by registering a description of your data

Health Data Australia is a national catalogue of Australian clinical trials data designed to facilitate access, sharing and reuse of health research data.

Health and medical researchers can use the platform to discover and request access to data for their own research, or to register descriptions of their data to enhance discoverability by others.

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What You Can Do with Health Data Australia

On Health Data Australia, you can search for and request access to clinical trials datasets collected across Australia by universities, medical research institutes, clinical trials networks and health services. You can also find information that helps you understand those datasets, such as study protocols and data dictionaries.

The data is held and managed by the organisations responsible for the clinical trials. You can use Health Data Australia to submit an access request to the data owner.

Health Data Australia was launched in 2023, and we are continuously incorporating new datasets, features and enhancements. Over the next 5 years, as part of the ARDC’s People Research Data Commons, we will expand Health Data Australia to incorporate a wider array of data collections from different health research studies, as well as government and health service data.

What You Can Do with Health Data Australia

Share Your Clinical Trial Data

Clinical trialists and data custodians can use Health Data Australia to share clinical trial data according to standards designed by the Australian clinical trials community and fulfil data sharing requirements that come with public funding.

Health Data Australia provides a framework for researchers across Australia to:

gain increased recognition and visibility for their research
extend the life of their research
meet their responsibilities to share data from publicly funded research projects
facilitate new collaborations to expand their research impact.

It is anticipated that this will lead to:

increased ability to understand and answer specific questions and generate new hypotheses
more publications and citations, new students, successful grants and a sense of helping others across the country
better access to guidance, standards and governance around data sharing.

A map of the Health Data Australia nodes across Australia. Health Data Australia contains contributions from 72 health research organisations across the country organised into 9 nodes — A map of Health Data Australia node locations. Image: ARDC

Over 70 health research organisations across Australia, organised into 9 nodes, contribute to Health Data Australia.

Contributors to Health Data Australia

Health Data Australia was developed by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) in partnership with the health research community across Australia via the Health Studies Australian National Data Asset program (HeSANDA).

Reach out to your most relevant node via the links below.

Western Australia Node
HeSANDA Queensland Node
Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH) Clinical Trials Consortium Node
Mental Health Node
Monash and Partners Node
National Cancer Cooperative Trials Group Node – node email
Northern Australia Node
South Australia Node
Sydney Node (Sydney Health Partners and NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre Node)

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FROM OUR COMMUNITY

“By creating a more efficient way to share and manage data, Health Data Australia can foster new opportunities for research and mitigate the challenges faced by future researchers undertaking secondary analyses.”

Dr Angelina Tjokrowidjaja

Medical Oncologist
St George Hospital

“Health Data Australia is an excellent resource to find and access datasets for training, learning and methods development. It can help researchers identify and apply for access to a wide variety of datasets they may need to develop and test new statistical methods, ensuring they are robust, widely applicable and efficient.”

Dr Kristy Robledo

Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre

“By making the outputs of research studies more widely available, we’re unlocking the potential to a much, much broader range of researchers. We can’t predict the limit to the use of those data. There is no limit to the imagination of others and the uses that they might put those data together.”