#Our Future Health

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An early assessment of the UK's Our Future Health project was published online in Nature Medicine on 10 September 2026.
The analysis argues that national-scale cohorts may reshape population medicine.
Such cohorts offer scale, long-term follow-up, and breadth that smaller studies cannot match.
The paper frames Our Future Health as an example of national research infrastructure rather than a single study.

DT Editorial Team·Sep 11, 2026·via nature.com

Baseline phenotypic data are now available for more than 1.9 million Our Future Health participants, with enrolment past 2.5 million toward a 5 million target.
Phenotypes span self-reported behaviours and diagnoses, geolocation, medication, inpatient and outpatient visits, cancer registry records and cause of death.
Cohort characteristics broadly reflected UK patterns, but all but one minority ethnic group and the most deprived groups were underrepresented.
Depression and anxiety prevalence exceeded national estimates, correlating 0.78 with UK Biobank; clinical correlate associations replicated at 0.80.

DT Editorial Team·Sep 11, 2026·via nature.com