MISSION

COVID-19 poses societal challenges that require expeditious data and knowledge sharing. Though medical records are abundant, they are largely inaccessible to outside researchers. Statistical, machine learning, and causal research are most successful with large datasets beyond what is available in any given organization. The goal of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is to democratize access to data and provide an open science community focused on analyzing patient-level data from many clinical centers to reveal patterns in COVID-19 patients. The valuable resource, which provides access to harmonized data across organizations and linkages to external datasets, provides researchers and citizen scientists with a secure data environment to enable transparent and reproducible collaborative research.

The N3C mission is to help save lives by enabling collaboration among clinicians, researchers, citizen scientists, patients, and data scientists to address questions, thereby reducing the immediate and long-term impacts of COVID-19.