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
HRA in the news: Nancy Sung, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Founding Board Chair of the Health Research Alliance, was interviewed for an article published in the Winter 2010 edition of Philanthropy, a publication of the Philanthropy Roundtable, "Breakthrough: Medical research is dominated by government and corporate funding. How can philanthropic dollars find a distinctive niche?" The article includes information about the funding approaches of several HRA member organizations, including Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, and mentions several others in the context of their membership in HRA.

Coping with economic challenges: In May, 2009, the Health Research Alliance conducted a survey to determine how its member organizations are coping with continuing economic challenges, "Funders of Health Research and Training Respond to Continuing Economic Challenges: A Health Research Alliance Report." The survey examined strategies member organizations are employing to manage grantmaking as well as strategies to decrease administrative expenses. The report compares the survey results to other recently-conducted surveys of philanthropies.

Published articles on the clinical research enterprise authored or otherwise contributed to by Health Research Alliance members:
Health Research Alliance conference proceedings:
Published articles on evaluation to which the Health Research Alliance or its members contributed: