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

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Health Research Alliance members:
Registration materials have been sent by email for the September Members' Meeting. If you have not received registration information, please contact HRA. Updates to the meeting agenda will be posted on the Members' Meeting & News page when they are available. Thanks to the Program Committee for planning an outstanding agenda for the September Members' Meeting, to be hosted by the Alzheimer's Association in Chicago on September 29-30, 2010.
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
How funders are coping with economic challenges: March 2010 update to May 2009 report now available. 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 and to decrease administrative expenses. In February and March, 2010, HRA conducted a follow-up survey to assess the degree to which the financial climate for HRA member organizations has changed, what member organizations have learned from coping through the recession and their forecasts for the remainder of 2010. "Funders of Health Research and Training Respond to Continuing Economic Challenges: A Health Research Alliance Report Update" also lists cost-savings strategies member organizations have used to manage grants payouts, to manage the expense of peer review, and to reduce other administrative expenses.


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.

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: