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Upcoming Events
Professional Development Workshop: Leading Up, Down, and Across
5/22/24, 12:00-1:30PM ET; 6/6/24 2:30-4:00PM ET; 6/18/24 1-2:30PM ET
As part of HRA’s Professional Development Program, we are excited to announce our upcoming virtual workshop titled “Leading Up, Down, and Across,” led by Molly Grisham, an experienced workshop facilitator and executive coach. This workshop is open to all HRA members at every career level and will be interactive, involving both…
Open Science 101: First Steps to Implementing an Open Science Policy
5/29/24 1-2PM ET
The Open Science Learning Community is thrilled to announce a new initiative in collaboration with Greg Tananbaum and Erin McKiernan of the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA). We heard loud and clear in our recent survey and at the spring member’s meeting open science session that many of our member organizations are grappling with…
Therapeutic Development Learning Community Re-Launch
5/30/24 2-3PM ET
Join the new co-chair team (Mary O’Reilly, Maaike Everts, Raeka Aiyar) to reboot the Therapeutic Development (formerly known as Drugs and Other Therapy Development) Learning Community! This will be an informal meeting to reconnect, hear from you about your interests for our future meetings, share some relevant learnings, and set…
Follow-Up Discussion: Promoting Diversity in Clinical Trials
6/5/24 1-2PM ET
Please join the DEI Learning Community for a working session on June 5 (1-2PM ET) to reflect and discuss further our call from May 1 on “Promoting Diversity in Clinical Trials”. The recording, slides, and related resources from the May 1 webinar are available on the HRA website (https://www.healthra.org/resources/promoting-diversity-in-clinical-trials-may-1-2024/). Our…
Upcoming Meetings
Fall 2024 HRA Members Meeting
Tuesday, October 1 - Wednesday, October 2
The Fall 2024 Health Research Alliance Members Meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 1 – Wednesday, October 2 in Alexandria, VA, hosted at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) offices. The meeting will also be streamed online. More details will be shared here as they are available! HRA…
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
Historically, clinical trials did not always recruit participants who represented the individuals most affected by a particular disease, condition, or behavior. This has created gaps in our understanding of disease and can impede the quality of health care. Clinicians and researchers should carefully consider the inclusion or exclusion criteria for…
On this Misconduct & Ethics community call, we reviewed key takeaways from the February meeting held at Doris Duke with outside stakeholders on this topic. Using feedback from this community and the February convening, we have developed a draft logic model to guide next steps of this community (see image…
This Grants Administration Community open mic focused on sharing tools and tricks (including AI and considerations around LLMs) to make our grants admin lives easier. Participants discussed tools like grants administration system features for automation and post-award management, Smartsheet for project management, and various AI tools for use by both funders…
Recent News
HRA 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.