Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
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InterLACE: International collaboration for a life course approach to reproductive health and chronic disease events.

Approved: 2024

Collaborators:

  • Prof Gita Mishra
  • Prof Annette Dobson
  • Prof Debra Anderson
  • Dr Hsin-Fang Chung
  • Dr Zhiwei Xu
  • Dr Louise Wilson

Synopsis

InterLACE provides a unique opportunity to conduct world-leading research in collaboration with key national and international investigators on women’s health studies from 11 nations. We will undertake cross-cohort research by combining data at the individual level from more than 800 000 participants in 26 existing longitudinal studies (including ALSWH young & mid-age cohorts) to investigate the role of reproductive health across life on subsequent chronic diseases, especially CVD events and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). While this poses cross-cohort and cross-cultural research challenges, InterLACE has the capability to address research questions and generate robust evidence that is not possible from any single cohort study.