About CARDAT

The Clean Air and health Research Data and Analysis Technology (CARDAT) platform is a collection of IT infrastructure that enables easy data sharing and reuse, and supports reproducible data analysis. This online research platform collates a wide array of population, health and environmental datasets alongside a collection of analysis tools and methodology resources.

CARDAT is overseen by the Centre for Safe Air (CSA) and WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment (WHOCC-CCHIA). Its mission is to provide data, methods and tools to support research and analysis in the fields of air pollution, energy and health.

Key areas

Data sharing: The CARDAT data repository, which contains datasets from a variety of sources (commercial, government, academic). This is coupled with the CARDAT data inventory, which holds metadata of CARDAT repository datasets as well as datasets of interest from other repositories or portals.

Data tools and workflows: CARDAT maintains a code repository to aid reproducible research and development of new workflows.

Data science support: CARDAT provides data science support to the Centre for Safe Air and WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment projects. Additionally, CARDAT supports training events with creation of training materials, workflows and tutorials.

Funding and support

CARDAT is currently funded and overseen by the Centre for Safe Air, an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (APP ID 2015584), and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment, located at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

The development of CARDAT infrastructure and its resources has previously received support from the Centre for Air pollution, energy and health Research (CAR), an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence and predecessor of the Centre for Safe Air. Further enhancements were made possible through the funding of various projects.

We thank the past and on-going contributors of data and tools to the platform, as well as the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), which provides key infrastructure support.