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Editorial
. 2022 Dec 23:43:1605660.
doi: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1605660. eCollection 2022.

Swiss Cohort & Biobank - The White Paper

Nicole Probst-Hensch  1   2   3   4 , Murielle Bochud  3   4   5 , Arnaud Chiolero  3   4   6   7 , Luca Crivelli  3   4   8   9 , Julia Dratva  3   4   10 , Antoine Flahault  3   4   11 , Daniel Frey  4 , Nino Kuenzli  1   2   3   4 , Milo Puhan  3   12 , L Suzanne Suggs  3   4   9 , Corina Wirth  4
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Editorial

Swiss Cohort & Biobank - The White Paper

Nicole Probst-Hensch et al. Public Health Rev. .
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Keywords: Swiss cohort; biobank; health care; health data; health systems; personalized health; public health; white paper.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest.

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The Swiss Cohort and Biobank consisting of at least 100,000 individuals of all ages and evolving sub-cohorts will be designed in the context of a broad population and stakeholder involvement. It will be centrally governed, but implemented by regional public health research hubs, and will make use of existing and in part centralized infrastructures. It will provide relevant data, biological specimens and images to a) understand factors promoting healthy growing up and health aging towards evidence-based primary prevention and health promotion, b) identify and evaluate the utility of novel biomarkers and algorithms for risk and disease screening, and c) evaluate the utility of novel medical interventions and treatments and will thus provide the evidence-base for sustainable health and social care systems and for health-in-all policies.
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Swiss Cohort and Biobank of 100,000+ participants of all ages and options for evolving sub-cohorts.
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Determinants and endpoint data (A), health and phenotype assessments (B) and biological specimens and biomarker domains (C) to be considered by the Swiss Cohort and Biobank, based on existing cohort study protocols [–105].
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Framework for distribution of study instruments between sub-groups and over follow-up of cohort.
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Proposed governance structure for the organization and responsibilities of the Swiss Cohort and Biobank, led by the public health sciences community targeting though questions an priorities set and monitored by public authorities and constituencies represented in the Strategic Advisory Board (details see text).
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