Fall 2019 HRA Members’ Meeting (Alexandria)
The fall 2019 members meeting will be held at the Conquer Cancer Foundation offices in Alexandria. HRA has secured a room-block with the Residence Inn Marriott at 2345 Mill Road, Alexandra VA at $219/night + taxes. A link to reserve your room will be posted soon.
Intro to Datavant: Technology to link patient-level healthcare data without sharing personally-identifiable information
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…
HRA Regional Meeting: Metro DC
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,…
HRA & Donaghue Foundation: Understanding Visual Intelligence & Data Visualization
The Donaghue Foundation and the Health Research Alliance are joining with HealthDataViz, a Boston firm that specializes in helping healthcare organizations design and present visual displays of data, to offer this webinar on the fundamentals of data visualization. The webinar will: Offer guidance on best practices for creating and distributing…
Fall 2018 HRA Members’ Meeting (Durham)
UPDATE (9/12/2018): We have rescheduled this meeting for November 15-16, 2018.
Spring 2019 HRA Members’ Meeting (Atlanta)
The spring 2019 members meeting will be held at the American Cancer Society offices in downtown Atlanta. HRA has secured a room-block with the Atlanta Marriott Marquis at 265 Peach Tree Center Ave at $189/night + taxes. The link to reserve your room is above.
Spring 2018 HRA Members’ Meeting (NYC)
This meeting covered the following topics: ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency (ORBIT) Project, Health Services Research, Novel Funding Models, Implementation of Funder Data Sharing Policies, Strategies for Increasing Diversity in the Workforce,
Fall 2017 HRA Members’ Meeting (Chicago)
This meeting covered the following topics: Program Evaluation: Leveraging Shared Award Data and Other Data Sources, Strategic Planning, Accelerating Treatments to Patients – Crossing the “Valley of Death”, Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers to Accelerate Clinical Development and to Improve Clinical Practice, Speak Visually: How to Use Visual Communication to Tell Your Research Story, Open Science – Pre-Registration: Approaches to Ensuring Reproducibility…
Spring 2017 HRA Members’ Meeting (Manhattan Beach)
This meeting covered the following topics: Altmetrics, Successful Implementation of Open Science and Data Sharing, Demystifying Indirect Cost in Funder Agreements, Addressing Inefficiencies to Accelerate Future Clinical Trials, Convergence: Platform Technologies to Accelerate Life Science Discovery, Private Philanthropy and Biomedical Research: Fresh Perspectives from a New Generation of Donors, Putting Grants Data to Work: Practical Approaches to Evaluation
Fall 2016 HRA Members’ Meeting (Bethesda)
This meeting covered the following topics: Understanding preprints, an emerging model for publication in biology, Interactions with Industry, Mainstream Media Distorting Science – and What as Funders Can We Do About It?, FDA Priorities and Interactions with Non-Profits, Communicating Impact of our Funding, Interactions with National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Scientific Session
Spring 2016 HRA Members’ Meeting (NYC)
This meeting covered the following topics: Use of Big Data in Precision Medicine: Patient & Disease-Specific Registries, Approaches to achieve gender equity in STEM faculty: successes, hurdles and opportunities for collaboration, “Gene Editing and Precision Medicine” Scientific Session, Measuring and Messaging Research Outcomes of Your Funding, Team Science Tools: Practical Team Science Guidance