Health Research Alliance: A National Organization Fostering Links Between Reseearch and Practice

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Health Research Alliance members: The March 2010 Members' Meeting will be hosted by the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 17-18, 2010. Those who have registered for the meeting should receive an email with final details no later than March 10, 2010. The most current meeting agenda and background documents for the meeting have been posted on the Members' Meeting and News page.

Please mark your calendar now for the September Members' Meeting: September 29-30, 2010, to be hosted by the Alzheimer's Association in Chicago.
The 2008 HRA National Conference, "Accelerating Medical Discovery Through Strategic Philanthropy," in March 2008 was an exciting event. Conference proceedings are posted on the Publications page under the Resources tab on the home page. Conference presentations are posted for HRA member organizations on the HRA National Conference page in the Members-Only portion of the website.
Is your organization interested in becoming a member of the Health Research Alliance? Find out more.
Health Research Alliance
P.O. Box 13901
21 T. W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709
Organizations participating in the Health Research Alliance represent a variety of types of nongovernmental funders of health research, including voluntary health agencies, private foundations, and operating foundations. All of these organizations share a common interest in speeding the translation of biomedical science discoveries into applications that improve health, and in identifying and adopting best practices in funding health research.

List of Founding Members
  • AACR Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer
  • Alzheimer's Association
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Diabetes Association
  • American Heart Association
  • Arthritis Foundation
  • Autism Speaks
  • Avon Foundation
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
  • The Donaghue Foundation
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  • The Flinn Foundation
  • Fondation Leducq
  • Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
  • Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc.
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, International
  • March of Dimes
  • Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
  • The Medical Foundation

A complete list of current members can be found in the "Member Profiles" page under the "Membership" tab.

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