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How NIH Uses Community Health Partnership for Participant Engagement
Patient Engagement HIT highlights the All of Us Research Program’s emphasis on building trust with community health partnerships, boosting participant engagement and diversity. The piece offers insights from Justin Hentges, Chief Financial and Management Officer and Acting Chief Engagement Officer for the All of Us Research Program.
June 23, 2021
Type: News
How Digital Technology Can Increase Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In Medical Research
In an article in Forbes, Praduman Jain of Vibrent Health—an All of Us partner organization—discusses the lack of diversity in research, citing a recent commentary in Cell by All of Us and NIH leadership, and details how digital technology can reduce health disparities and boost scientific discovery.
May 12, 2021
Type: News
The Arizona Daily Star highlights the All of Us Research Program in the feature ‘The Heart of the Matter’ sharing comments from NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, comparing the ambitious precision medicine effort to the renowned Framingham Heart Study.
April 28, 2021
Type: News
Xavier Bofill De Ros, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute, explains the benefits and potential of the Human Genome Project, including the ambitious All of Us Research Program designed to collect one million human genomes and “unlock genetic secrets.”
April 15, 2021
Type: News
All of Us Research Program Ramping up on In-Person Enrollment
Doctor Cora E Lewis, a professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health, talked to the Birmingham Times about the pause of in-person enrollment for the All of Us Research Program when the pandemic started in March 2020 and explained how in-person recruitment resumed at UAB in January 2021 with safety precautions in place.
April 8, 2021
Type: News
"All of Us" Aims to Expand Tribal Engagement for Precision Medicine
The All of Us Research Program is working to respectfully engage American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people and support their inclusion in precision medicine research. NIH engaged in a two-year Tribal Consultation process to gather input from tribal leaders; as a result, All of Us leaders reaffirmed a set of commitments to Tribal Nations, including rules to never recruit on tribal lands or disclose participants’ tribal affiliations without a tribe’s agreement.
April 5, 2021
Type: News
Woman of Medicine: Karen Dotson ALL OF US!
All of Us at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), in collaboration with partners throughout the country, is laying the groundwork for research that may help eliminate health disparities, particularly in communities of color. Historically, these communities have been underrepresented in biomedical research and experience the greatest disparities in health care access and health outcomes. Karen Dotson and her All of Us team at MCW want to lead the region in program enrollments from communities of color.
March 26, 2021
Type: News
Eric Dishman on Paul Allen, Andy Grove, and All of Us
Eric Dishman, Chief Innovation Officer of the All of Us Research Program, spoke to the BioTeam about the diversity of the All of Us cohort, the diversity of data, and opening the All of Us platform to all researchers.
March 23, 2021
Type: News
Addressing health inequity in disparities of cancer outcomes
The research community has responded to the recognized lack of population diversity in clinical trials. A cornerstone of the All of Us Research Program is the enrollment of racial and ethnic minorities to ensure that diversity can inform precision medicine research.
March 14, 2021
Type: News
Exploring the Intersection of Genomic Data and AI in Healthcare
All of Us CEO Josh Denny weighs in on the potential of artificial intelligence to gain actionable insights from genomic data and advance precision medicine.
March 5, 2021
Type: News
All of Us partner Scripps Research has recently launched a new pilot project to collect more longitudinal health data from participants through wearable devices.
February 24, 2021
Type: News
As All of Us moves to diversify medicine, its tech partners push to democratize research
STAT reports on how the technology platform underpinning the All of Us Researcher Workbench stands to make data and tools accessible to broader audiences to spur new discoveries.
February 22, 2021
Type: News
