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# National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
In 2020, WVCTSI was chosen to lead a group of eight states to participate in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). The N3C is a partnership among CTSA and CTR awardees along with the National Center for Data to Health in partnership with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. This initiative has created a nationwide clinical data analytics platform made up of clinical data relevant to SARS CoV-2. This data is harmonized and made available for researchers in order to accelerate and support innovative SARS CoV-2 research and clinical care.
**Participating CTRS!**
* Delaware
* Louisiana
* Maine
* Mississippi
* Nebraska
* Oklahoma
* Rhode Island
* West Virginia
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Duration: 55:04
National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Overview
Any questions on this new initiative should be directed to Sharon Patrick, WVCTSI N3C Program Coordinator
View Address and Directions
**West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute**
304-293-7015
Fax: 304-293-4200
PO Box 9102
Morgantown, WV 26506-9102
WVCTSI Administrative Offices are located in Room G130 of the Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Facility of the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center.
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5. Getting Started
# Getting Started
Below are instructions covering how to create an account with the N3C enclave.
#### Preliminary Step:
Your organization needs to have a Data Use Agreement (DUA) on file with the N3C.  Please check the below resource to ensure an organizational DUA is on file.
#### Registration Instructions
* Visit the 
* Click the purple "Register Here" button
* Click the "Click here to Register" Button
* Log in with your organization account
+ Type the name of your organization into the search bar (Marshall University, West Virginia University, etc)
+ Two factor authentication is required (DUO is acceptable)
* Users will need an ORCID iD. Information on how to register for an ORCID iD can be found on the 
**The approval process to the enclave takes 24-48 hours to allow for review.**
#### **Questions?**
5. Additional N3C Resources
# Additional N3C Resources
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National COVID Cohort Collaborative
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5. Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results (PHASTR).
# Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results (PHASTR).
The N3C Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results (PHASTR) is designed to quickly address high-impact questions that can be answered with N3C data. These questions will be identified by N3C and NIH leadership, and Proposals to address them within the N3C Data Enclave will be open for a short time for each. Successful proposals will be awarded a short-term contract, and will be expected to produce quantitative answers within a given time frame.
Following standard N3C policy, source data cannot be duplicated outside of the N3C Data Enclave, and all analyses must be completed within the enclave. Results will be submitted by investigators via the N3C Results Download process, this and other policies are described at .
**Purpose:**
The public health initiative was instantiated to address high-impact questions that are not being investigated by the research community.
**Goals:**
Provide fast, actionable analysis of high-impact, public health research questions. Engage the community capable of working with N3C “big data” to answer public health-related research questions of interest.
**Support Mechanism:**
The N3C Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results, PHASTR works through a subcontract mechanism. Proposals to address questions will be submitted to NCATS’ primary contract, Axle Informatics, from the N3C platform. Teams with successful proposals will work through Axle (as a subcontract) to complete the work.
**Who Can and Cannot apply:**
Any individual or team with appropriate expertise, experience, and resources can submit a proposal, provided there is no real or apparent conflict of interest.
All offerors must follow all registration and data access processes associated with the environment, including meeting the access requirements for level 3 data as described .
More details can be found here: 