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Upcoming Events
Grants Administration Community: 2025 Kick-off and Looking Ahead
1/23/25 2-3PM ET
Happy New Year! The next Grants Administration Community meeting is on Thursday, January 23rd, and will be a kick-off call for 2025 and looking at the year ahead. As always, our programming is designed to bring greatest interest/benefit to HRA members, so we need your input! We will discuss continuing our…
Program Evaluation Community Open Forum
1/30/25 2 - 2:45PM ET
Start off the new year with a fresh focus on program evaluation! Join us for a 45-minute open forum on Thursday, January 30, at 2 PM ET to kick off the HRA Program Evaluation Learning Community’s 2025 efforts. This is your chance to share your program evaluation wins, problems, and…
Research Workforce and Early Career Development Community Call
2/5/25 12-1PM ET
On behalf of the Research Workforce and Early Career Development community, we would like to invite you to an open call on February 5th at 12PM eastern. This call will gather your input and priorities on upcoming topics for the community. We have three main ideas and would like to…
2025 CEO Roundtables
2/20/25 2-3PM 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,…
Upcoming Meetings
Spring 2025 HRA Members Meeting
Monday, March 10 - Thursday, March 13
The Spring 2025 HRA Members Meeting will be held entirely virtually! Sessions will be scheduled across multiple days during the week of March 10, 2025. This website will be updated as more information becomes available. Session Topics Session dates and times are still being finalized; please check back for scheduling…
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
Please email Jenna at jenna [at] healthra [dot] org to request access to the session recording for this community call. This Grants Administration Community open mic focused on peer review, starting with scoring systems for evaluating applications. The discussion was lively, and included sharing of number of reviewers, number of…
The Research Workforce and Early Career Community hosted a special 90 minute discussion about mentorship on November 14th at 2-3:30PM eastern. Sarvenaz Sarabipour, PhD, from the University of Connecticut and Natalie Niemi, PhD, from Washington University at St. Louis presented data from their survey of early career researchers which identifies…
The Registry & Biorepository and DEI Learning Communities hosted a joint webinar on Diversity in Registry and Biorepository Research To Advance Precision Medicine. We heard from Janeth Sanchez, Acting Director of Health Equity for the All of Us Research Program about how their program engages populations underrepresented in biomedical research…
Recent News
Introduction to HRA’s New Executive Director
Dear HRA members, I am delighted to introduce myself as the new Executive Director of the Health Research Alliance. My first 30 days as the Executive Director have been exciting and fulfilling! I have spent time getting to know the amazing HRA staff and interns, as well as some Board…
July 29, 2024HRA Names Christine Riordan, Ph.D. as their new Executive Director
The Health Research Alliance (HRA) announced today the appointment of its new Executive Director, Dr. Christine Riordan, effective June 17, 2024. Christine Riordan, Ph.D. Dr. Riordan will succeed retiring HRA Executive Director, Dr. Maryrose Franko, and will take on the leadership of the HRA, representing more than 100 nonprofit funders…
May 13, 20242023 Impact Report
Dear HRA members, In addition to sharing HRA’s 2023 Impact Report to celebrate our year of collective achievements, Jenna and I want to express our sincere appreciation for your on-going support and dedication to the mission of HRA. We could not have made the impact we did without you! We…
January 11, 2024HRA Happenings – November 2, 2023
Dear HRA members, We are packing quite a bit into the last two months of 2023 – hope you can take advantage of the many opportunities listed below. Check it out The new and improved Member Profiles page is live on HRA’s website! This public-facing page displays member organization’s names,…
November 3, 2023HRA Happenings – August 16, 2023
Dear HRA members, I am starting this newsletter with major HRA staff news! Goodbye Annette ☹ After 13 years helping HRA grow to be the fantastic organization it is today, Annette is stepping down to take advantage of other opportunities. I am thrilled for Annette, but of course it’s a…
August 16, 2023HRA Happenings – June 27, 2023
Dear HRA members, Happy Summer! HRA will continue to host events throughout the summer, though with less frequency. Upcoming events are listed below, as are links to new resources. Included in those resources are 3 of our newest types of resources – “Key Ideas.” Check them out! Also – please…
June 27, 2023Featured 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.