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Upcoming Events
Grants Administration Community June Open Mic
6/25/25 2-3PM ET
The next Grants Administration Community open mic is on Wednesday, June 25th from 2:00-3:00 pm ET. This session will focus on award agreements/grant terms & conditions, as well as other post-award processes! In particular, we will discuss (1) indirect costs (amounts, definitions), (2) IP/revenue sharing provisions and other venture philanthropy considerations,…
2025 CEO Roundtables
6/26/25 12-1PM ET
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
8/27/25 3-4PM ET
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…
Upcoming Meetings
Fall 2025 HRA Members Meeting
11/19/25 - 11/20/25
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 meeting will also be streamed online. HRA will not…
Our Mission
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.
BY THE NUMBERS
over 55,000
Awards contained in HRA Analyzer
$17.6
Billion total HRA member funding in HRA Analyzer
$1 Bil
February is Heart Health month. HRA Members provide over 1 billion dollars in support for Cardiovascular Research!
Latest Resources
The Health Research Alliance Open Science Learning Community hosted a webinar to learn about training opportunities, repositories, and techniques to train your awardees on how to be in compliance with open data policies. There was also a review of consultative services available while establishing your open data and licensing policies….
This Program Evaluation Community webinar explored different approaches to assessing the long-term impact of funding with fellow members Diane Bovenkamp (VP, Scientific Affairs at BrightFocus Foundation), Brent Dolezalek (VP of Operations, JSMF), and Jen Mortensen (National Director, Program Evaluation, American Heart Association). The discussion covered a range of methodologies, from…
This Grants Administration Open Mic began with a discussion around the competitive LOI process, which you might have seen on the listserv as an active discussion topic with a follow-up survey. Eryn Marchiolo from the Rheumatology Research Foundation joined us to present the survey results, and a robust discussion followed….
Recent News
HRA Happenings – February 17, 2022
Hi HRA members, I’ll get right to it – as there is much to report in this newsletter! Please welcome our 3 newest members: American Friends of Cancer Research – Cancer Grand Challenges International Rett Syndrome Foundation Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer Four upcoming webinars Feel free to register for…
February 17, 2022HRA Happenings – February 3, 2022
Dear HRA members, Welcome to February (and 6 more weeks of winter if Phil is correct)! I will only mention a few of the upcoming events, but you can always get details on the Upcoming Events page. Community Webinars (formerly Working Groups) Please register for as many of these Community…
February 3, 2022HRA Happenings – January 20, 2022
Dear HRA Members, I hope 2022 has started out well for all of you, as it has for HRA. By now, you should all have read HRA’s 2021 Impact Report. Among other items, we highlight the analysis of the COVID-19 Impact Survey that has been so useful in organizations’ strategic…
January 20, 2022Featured Platform
HRA Analyzer
Demonstrating the impact of HRA Member funding
The HRA Analyzer 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.