Using data to improve public health: COVID-19 secondment

在纵向研究中心（CLS）借调期间，我将开展研究，调查长期covid对英国就业和收入的影响，以及covid对某些人群的影响如何不成比例地超过其他人。为了做到这一点，我将分析CLS的四个国家纵向队列研究的数据，这些研究跟踪了成千上万的英国居民从出生到一生。这四项研究中的每一项都追踪了每年出生的具有全国代表性的大型人群。CLS最古老的研究记录了上世纪50年代末出生的一群婴儿潮一代的生活，而最新的研究则评估了新世纪初出生的一群人的生活。在大流行期间，CLS对所有四项队列研究以及国家卫生与发展调查的参与者进行了额外的COVID-19调查。本次COVID-19调查的目的是了解COVID-19危机对经济、社会和健康的影响，疫情扩大或缩小不平等的程度，以及影响脆弱性和抵御其影响的终身因素。我的角色，作为多机构国家核心研究的一部分？纵?健康与福祉计划，将利用CLS队列数据开展研究，重点关注i) COVID-19严重程度和就业/收入中断，以及ii) COVID-19感染的社会经济、人口和地理空间决定因素。这两项研究都汇集了来自英国多项研究和电子健康记录的数据。鉴于COVID-19病毒以及随后的封锁和休假措施导致英国人的日常生活发生了巨大变化，这样的研究至关重要。了解人们的健康、经济活动和社会生活如何继续演变具有相当大的政策重要性，因为大流行病不仅是一场传染病危机，也是一场经济和社会危机。

During my secondment with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), I will conduct research examining the impact of long covid on employment and income in the UK, and how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected some populations more than others. In order to do this, I will analyse data from CLS's four national longitudinal cohort studies which follow tens of thousands of UK residents from birth and across their entire lives. Each of these four studies follows large, nationally representative groups of people born each year. CLS's oldest study charts the lives of a group of Baby Boomers born in the late 1950s, while the most recent cohort assesses a group of those born at the turn of the new century. During the pandemic, CLS have conducted an additional COVID-19 survey in all four of these cohort studies as well as participants in the National Survey of Health and Development. The aim of this COVID-19 survey is to understand the economic, social and health impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, the extent to which the pandemic is widening or narrowing inequalities, and the lifelong factors which shape vulnerability and resilience to its effects.My role, as part of the multi-institutional National Core Studies?Longitudinal?Health and Wellbeing initiative, is to utilise CLS cohort data to conduct studies focusing on i) COVID-19 severity and employment/income disruption and ii) Socioeconomic, demographic and geospatial determinants of COVID-19 infections. Both studies draw together data from multiple UK studies and electronic health records. Such research is crucial given that both the COVID-19 virus and subsequent lockdown and furlough measures have led to a drastic change in the daily lives of the UK population. Understanding how people's health, economic activity and social lives continue to evolve has considerable policy importance, since the pandemic is not only an infectious disease crisis but also an economic and social crisis.