2025 CEO Roundtables
HRA will be hosting roundtables giving CEOs (including Presidents, Executive Directors, etc) of HRA Member organizations the opportunity to network and learn from their peers. Previous roundtable discussions have covered strategic planning and human resource issues such as remote and hybrid work, compensation, and expanding programs under increasing expense constraints,…
Summer Book Club: Everything Is Tuberculosis
Summer book club is back! This summer we will be reading the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a…
Open Mic Discussion for HRA Research Workforce & Early Career Development Learning Community: Evolving Biomedical Research Funding with the Current Times
Join the HRA Research Workforce & Early Career Development Learning Community for an open mic discussion to learn how various funders are adapting their funding programs and mechanisms to better support the research workforce during federal budget cuts. This session invites input from across the research community to explore innovative…
Grants Administration Community Open Mic – Revised Grants Administration Handbook
The next Grants Administration Community open mic is on Wednesday, September 24th from 2:00-3:00 pm ET. This session will focus on the revised HRA Grants Administration Handbook (must be logged in to view)! We will go over the table of contents/topics included, discuss best use cases of the handbook, answer any…
Program Evaluation Community Call – Introducing RAiD: A Persistent Identifier for Research Projects
In this session, participants will learn about RAiD (Research Activity Identifier), a Persistent Identifier (PID) for research projects that is recognized as the ISO 23527:2022 international standard. Established in 2022 as an international standard for identifying, tracking, and recognizing research projects, RAiD is a new PID that can be used…
Fall 2025 HRA Members Meeting
Registration is OPEN! Register by October 17 to attend the Members Meeting in-person. The Fall 2025 Health Research Alliance Members Meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 19 – Thursday, November 20 in Alexandria, VA, hosted at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) offices and sponsored by Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Association, BrightFocus Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund,…
Navigating Shifts: Impact of Federal Policy Changes on the Biomedical Workforce [Fall 2025 Members Meeting]
Federal policy decisions shape the landscape of biomedical research and profoundly influence the careers, stability, and diversity of the scientific workforce. Ongoing shifts are particularly consequential for early career researchers and workforce development programs, which often serve as the entry points into scientific careers. Understanding and anticipating the effects of…
Lessons in Rare Disease: Funding, Review, and Sustaining Efforts [Fall 2025 HRA Members Meeting]
Rare disease research faces unique funding challenges—limited donor pools, few established researchers, and persistent gaps in scientific knowledge.This session explores creative funding strategies, from forging partnerships to leveraging non-traditional donors, insights into the proposal review process, and examines how to catalyze progress in under-resourced fields. We’ll discuss how to support…
Why are we here and what impact can we have? A reflection of and vision for biomedical research funding and philanthropic and non-profit involvement [Fall 2025 Members Meeting]
This session explores a historical view of how the biomedical research enterprise has been funded and how philanthropic and non-profit organizations fit into this enterprise. Speakers will address the advent of government support for science and its infrastructure in the United States along with how that research funding intertwines with…
What’s the Story? Making Science Funding Meaningful to the Public [Fall 2025 Members Meeting]
In today’s rapidly shifting federal funding landscape, it is critical to be able to clearly articulate the importance of the need to fund innovative and transformative research, from basic science to translational and clinical research. Building public trust is one tool that may help enable more support for scientific research…
Professional Development Workshop: Storytelling for Impact [Fall 2025 Members Meeting]
In this interactive workshop, a professional facilitator will introduce participants to a robust framework for how to narrate and illustrate impact effectively. This framework will help participants how to develop compelling narratives for their specific audiences, craft an effective story arc, and understand the importance of ethical and asset-based storytelling….