UNIFIED

UNIFIED is a five-year EU Innovative Health Initiative project (November 2025 – October 2030) that develops a harmonised framework for integrating patient preference information (PPI), clinical outcome assessments (COAs), and digital health technology (DHT) derived measures into healthcare decisions. The project is led by Erasmus University Rotterdam and Pfizer, with around 40 partners across Europe and Canada; the University of Amsterdam is a consortium partner.

The framework will be validated in five medical domains: paediatric radiation oncology, lung cancer, Parkinson’s disease, obesity, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

My involvement focuses on the data-integration and semantic-harmonisation side of the project — the problem of mapping heterogeneous data sources (wearable sensors, PROs, clinical assessments, patient preference data) into shared, interpretable constructs that can support patient-centred endpoints. This connects directly to the broader research programme on knowledge translation across representations: patient-centred endpoints are another setting in which the same underlying phenomenon is measured in several incompatible ways, and integrating them requires making hidden context explicit.