The institution of an interactive consortium for a globalized biorepository, high throughput and multidimensional technologies, sophisticated experimental and clinical study design, strong bioinformatics approaches, and harmonization of studies through the implementation of standard operative procedures with voluntary participation might provide cost-effective solutions.
The Global Pregnancy Collaboration (CoLab) has promoted harmonization of studies and standardized data collection to facilitate pregnancy and placental research.
The main objectives of ISEKI-Food are to improve the harmonization of studies in food science and engineering in Europe and to develop and adapt food science curricula emphasizing the inclusion of safety and environmental topics.
Uniform assessment of depression is essential in order to improve efforts at data harmonization across studies of PLWHA.
Additionally, common measures should be used to assess cART adherence as well as specific mental disorders to improve data harmonization across studies.
There should be harmonization of study designs, data collection, and analytical procedures, which may require a data coordination center that could also assess data quality and missing data.
Dr. Stingone also has a strong interest in the use of collective science initiatives to advance public health research, and works to develop methods and approaches for data harmonization across diverse studies of environmental health.
EPITARGET is also anticipating the future challenges and requirements in a larger-scale preclinical harmonization of epilepsy studies, including training, data management expertise, cost, location, data safety and continuity of data repositories during and after funding period, and incentives motivating for the use of CDEs.
Post harmonization of epidemiologic studies has become more common in the past 20 years [ 28].
As mentioned in section " LCI Harmonization", the original studies omitted processes and materials, which were described as "others" in the used publications.
