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

Bulletin:

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
The Health Research Alliance customarily sponsors a national conference every other year in even years, open to a wide variety of funders of health research. The HRA national conference represents the only national forum for non-governmental, non-profit funders of health research and training, including foundations, voluntary health agencies, and disease-specific funders. In addition to the national conference, HRA organizes two Members' Meetings a year that are hosted by member organizations. In early 2009, the HRA Board of Directors voted to postpone the national conference originally scheduled for the spring of 2010, because of the economic recession's continuing effects on funders of health research and training. The next national conference will be scheduled as soon as it is economically feasible to do so. In the meantime, the Alliance will be concentrating even more attention on Members' Meetings, which will continue to be held twice a year.

The 2008 HRA National Conference, "Accelerating Medical Discovery Through Strategic Philanthropy," was held March 4-6, 2008, at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C The conference proceedings will be available as a downloadable pdf on the "Publications" page under the "Resources" tab when they are complete.

HRA thanks the Program Committee members below for planning an excellent conference.
Co-Chairs:
  • William Galey, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Marc Hurlbert, Ph.D., Avon Foundation
    Members:
  • Maria Carrillo, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association
  • Lynne Garner, Ph.D., The Donaghue Foundation
  • Sharon Hesterlee, Ph.D., Muscular Dystrophy Association
  • Sally McNagny, M.D., M.P.H., The Medical Foundation
  • Concepcion Nierras, Ph.D., Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
  • William Read, Ph.D., The Flinn Foundation
  • Nancy Sung, Ph.D., Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • Melanie Turner, M.P.H., American Heart Association
  • Kate Ahlport, M.S.P.H., Health Research Alliance, Inc.

    Health Research Alliance 2006 National Conference
    "Building Strategic Partnerships to Advance Health Research"


    The 2006 HRA National Conference, "Building Strategic Partnerships to Advance Health Research" held at the Westin Grand Hotel in Washington, D.C. on May 3-4, 2006, was attended by representatives of over 50 funding organizations as well as by representatives of government agencies, universities, and other organizations. The conference proceedings provide a summary of each conference session.


    Health Research Alliance 2004 National Conference, "Partnering to Advance Health Research: Philanthropy's Role"

    The previous Alliance national conference, held in March of 2004,"Partnering to Advance Health Research: Philanthropy's Role," was attended by representatives of over 70 organizations that fund health research. Keynoted by Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, Dr. Richard Carmona, US Surgeon General, and Dr. Clement Bezold of the Institute for Alternative Futures, the meeting examined how different types of partnerships can move health research forward from the laboratory bench to the end result of improved health outcomes. In the time that has elapsed since that conference, the funding environment has become more challenging, and the need for creative partnerships has increased.


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