Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States – responsible for 1 in 5 deaths[i]. Data from the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program show that more than 89,000 participants have heart disease, according to electronic health record data.

The All of Us Research Program aims to advance precision medicine by building one of the largest research resources of its kind. To complete this undertaking, the program strives to partner with at least one million participants from diverse backgrounds. When All of Us first launched the Researcher Workbench in 2020, the program created the Resource Access Board (RAB) to hold All of Us researchers accountable to the program’s data access and use policies, which help the program protect the data that participants share.