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4 Reasons Researchers Choose the Ontario Health Study

May 4, 2022 // Study Updates

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What makes the OHS platform such a useful resource for researchers? OHS Scientific Associate and Epidemiologist Dr. Victoria Kirsh explains what makes the Study so unique:

  1. The OHS is designed specifically for investigator-initiated research
  2. The OHS enables both retrospective and prospective research
  3. The OHS is Ontario’s largest biobank, and is the largest contributing cohort to CanPath, a pan-Canadian cohort
  4. OHS Links to personal, behavioural, environmental, health system and biological data, so researchers can investigate cancer and chronic disease causes and determinants