Abstract

Thoughts and musings from the new International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) co-directors: Building on our strengths in the next two years of the IPDLN (2017-2019).

Highlights

  • The International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) remains a young organization, having had its inaugural conference only in 2008, and we have come a long way in that time

  • David Ford’s success and energy during his term were such that our two organizations decided we needed to team up to jointly direct the IPDLN for the two years. This was endorsed by the IPDLN membership in the lead up to the August 2016 IPDLN conference in Wales, and we are delighted to co-direct this growing network

  • David played a key role in the launch of a new journal for our network, the International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS), with an editorial board comprised of several IPDLN members, and with Associate Professor Kerina Jones (Swansea University) as founding editor-in-chief

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The IPDLN remains a young organization, having had its inaugural conference only in 2008, and we have come a long way in that time. Thoughts and musings from the new International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) co-directors: Building on our strengths in the two years of the IPDLN (2017-2019) The beginning of 2017 triggered a change in leadership at the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN), as Professor David Ford’s two year term as director of the network wound down, and the baton was handed on to new Canadian coleadership, from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary.

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