EPCC operates the EPCC Safe Haven Services, a secure computing environment through which it provides organisations with the computing infrastructure towards their own Safe Haven. We facilitate these Safe Havens within our secure perimeter, where each Safe Haven is isolated from all other Safe Havens, while also having access to shared computing resources. Each Safe Haven is governed independently by the respective organisation, under the guidance of the Five Safes framework. These independent Safe Havens enable researchers from specialised fields to access public sensitive data to perform studies with a public benefit. EPCC also provides advanced data management and data analytics skills to the Safe Havens that we host. Current Safe Haven ServicesWe partner with independent organisations to host their Safe Havens. EPCC Safe Haven Services launched in 2014, starting with the Scottish National Safe Haven, in collaboration with Public Health Scotland. We now host six Safe Havens, processing mostly health and administrative data, with two of our Safe Haven partners controlling financial data and data relating to child exploitation. Scottish National Safe HavenThe Scottish National Safe Haven provides a governed trusted research environment for accredited researchers to work on approved projects of public benefit using sensitive health and administrative data. EDRIS, access to the Scottish National Safe Haven.Smart Data FoundrySmart Data Foundry is an independent collaboration between governments and regulators, the financial services, industry and academia. The Foundry brings together the University of Edinburgh, the Financial Data and Technology Association, and Fintech Scotland to harness financial data for societal and economic benefit. Smart Data FoundryOutbreak Data Analysis PlatformThe purpose of the Outbreak Data Analysis Platform is to provide an accessible and usable data resource to enable research that is relevant to COVID-19, including new future COVID-19 outbreaks as well as those arising from other viruses. This will accelerate scientific understanding of new outbreaks for the benefit of patients and the protection of the public. To enable this to happen the Outbreak Data Analysis Platform (ODAP) brings together data from clinical records, research studies and audit data. ODAP is supported by UKRI and the Data and Connectivity Programme of the National Core Studies.ODAPDataLochDataLoch is a data service that has been developed in partnership by the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. DataLoch brings together routine data collected as part of people’s day-to-day interactions with health and social care services. These data include the services used, details of visits to hospitals or GPs, treatments, medicines prescribed, as well as outcomes and test results.DataLochThe Scottish Longitudinal StudyThe Scottish Longitudinal Study is a large-scale linkage study created using data from administrative and statistical sources. These include: census data from 1991 onwards; vital events data (births, deaths, marriages); NHS Central Register data (gives information on migration into or out of Scotland); and education data (including Schools Census and SQA data).The Scottish Longitudinal StudyChildLightChildlight is an independent data institute that gathers and visualises the prevalence and nature of child sexual exploitation and abuse across the world via a Global Index and dashboard. They make accessible data to inform policy and drive sustainable, coordinated action to safeguard children across the world.ChildLightAvailabilityPlease contact us via the service desk email below if you want to discuss setting up a Safe Haven.EIDF service desk email link. This article was published on Friday 24 November 2023
