Responding to Next Public Health Emergency With Real-World Data

The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a sea change in the real-world data (RWD) landscape, bolstering its utilization and recognition. Eventually, another public health crisis will emerge, and by continuing to support the development of RWD resources and utilization, we can rise to the challenge even more quickly. Learn more about how The MITRE Corporation helped during the pandemic and how it is planning for the next public health emergency.

According to Denise Schiavone and Gwynne Lee Jenkins, “What makes real-world evidence so critical during public health emergencies? To answer that question, we can look back to the early days of COVID. As the pandemic progressed, health officials had to determine the effectiveness of treatments solely based on early and limited clinical trials. What officials really needed? Access to actionable, real-time, large-scale patient data, particularly as new variants arose. The MITRE-led consortium collected clinical data on 167,000+ patients diagnosed with COVID-19. It also collected substantial viral genomic data to explore the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral variants and clinical outcomes.”

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(Source: The MITRE Corporation, May 5^th, 2023)