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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
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.