The Health Research Alliance, a collaborative member organization of nonprofit research funders, is committed to maximizing the impact of biomedical research to improve human health.
Upcoming Events
HRA Regional Meeting: Metro DC
October 16, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Panel on HRA and NIH Diversity and Inclusion Programs: Hannah Valantine NIH’s first permanent Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity. Judy Glaven, a Senior Scientific Officer at HHMI, will be presenting HHMI’s Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program, which seeks to recruit and retain individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic,…
Finding, Evaluating, and Promoting the Impact of your Research for Nonprofit Funders – how to use the new Dimensions functionality (led by Dimensions).
9/18/2018 12:00-1:00 PM ET
To identify and showcase how your resources have made an impact you’ll learn how to answer questions such as: Did your funding keep researchers in the field? Has your research impacted policy? Are there links between patents and your funding or publications? Did publications from your research become prominent, widely…
Intro to Datavant: Technology to link patient-level healthcare data without sharing personally-identifiable information
10/2/2018 2:00-3:00 PM ET
Meeting Description: Vera Mucaj will introduce Datavant, a San-Francisco based healthcare startup that helps build the pipes for healthcare data sharing at the patient level. Datavant enables linking of patient-level healthcare data across institutions without the need to share personally-identifiable information (PII). Datavant customers use the technology to assemble a…
BY THE NUMBERS
49,000
Awards contained in HRA Reporter
$13.5
Billion total awards in HRA Reporter
7,144
Rare Disease projects totaling $2 billion is in HRA Reporter
Issues Highlight
Data sharing
Developing guidelines and a set of valuable resources needed to implement impactful data sharing policies.
- Implementing Funder Data Sharing Policies (from annual meeting)
- Webinars on Intro to Data Sharing and Intro to Sharing Big Data
- New Data Sharing subgroup of the Open Science Task Force
At the Spring 2018 Members Meeting we had a session focused on “Implementing of Funder Data Sharing Policies.” HRA members shared their process, considerations, and implementation of data sharing policies. To supplement that information, HRA’s Data Sharing intern, Heather McCartney compiled HRA Member Data Sharing Policies.
Member Spotlight
Photo by Diane Bondareff/AP Images for American Federation for Aging ResearchTargeting the effects of aging
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is a leading, not-for-profit organization supporting biomedical aging research. Since 1981, AFAR has awarded more than $178 million to more than 4,100 talented investigators and students. The important work AFAR supports leads to a better understanding of aging processes and to improvements in the health of all people as they age.
Recent News
Facilitating Collaborative Relationships Among HRA Members program
The Health Research Alliance (HRA) is pleased to announce that we have received a $25,000 grant from the Rita Allen Foundation to support HRA’s Facilitating Collaborative Relationships Among HRA Members program. These funds will enable the Health Research Alliance to: • Partner with external consultants (Converge) to develop and lead…
September 14, 2018Health Research Alliance (HRA) launches new platform for open science in partnership with the National Library of Medicine powered by Figshare and Dimensions
HRA Open will allow HRA member-funded awardees to link their awards to their research outputs and deposit publications into PubMed Central. March 12, 2018: Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, London, UK, and Cambridge, MA, USA — The Health Research Alliance today announced a new application called “HRA Open” powered by…
March 12, 2018ORCiD Press Release
Health Research Alliance (HRA) today announces the launch of its ORCID consortium. Initially comprising twelve innovative non-profit funding organizations in health and biomedical research, HRA expects this consortium to grow as funders recognize the benefits of ORCID integration with their grants management and other systems. The HRA consortium launch is…
November 6, 2017Featured Platform
HRA Reporter
Demonstrating the impact of HRA Member funding
The HRA Reporter is a real time, searchable database of awards made by its 75 members. As of the launch, the database represents $8.9 billion in funding and over 31,000 separate grants from 2006 to the present. Check out Digital Science’s blog post of the HRA-UberResearch partnership.