The Asian American population is the largest-growing demographic in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But surprisingly, an Asian American is not typically represented when it comes to participating in health studies and gathering medical information. The All of Us program and precision medicine aim to reduce this disparity....
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health support "All of Us", a program that presents individuals the opportunity to become part of an historic research project by volunteering as study participants. ...
In this video, All of Us Director Eric Dishman explains the importance of All of Us from three perspectives—the patient, the provider, and the researcher....
The National Institutes of Health recently launched the All of Us Research Program to create one of the largest, richest public resources for biomedical research in human history. Its mission is to accelerate medical breakthroughs that personalize prevention, treatment, and care for all Americans. As the director of this unprecedented program — and as a cancer survivor, patient advocate, and participant in more than a dozen research studies — I want to share how we are safeguarding participant confidentiality and...
Just as money in the bank boosts your financial well-being, biobanks have the power to impact your health. Think of biobank samples as assets that researchers can draw upon to improve disease treatments. Mayo Clinic's biobank contributed to a breakthrough in diabetes research and, now, will contribute to health research nationwide as the biobank for the "All of Us" Research Program....
Mayo Clinic, which is home to the biobank for the All of Us Research Program, illustrates the powerful, positive influence biobanks can have on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of various illnesses. ...
The All of Us Research Program has recently issued a funding announcement for Genome Centers to generate genotype and whole genome sequence data from participants’ biosamples. Information produced from the Genome Centers will become a critical component in the program’s precision medicine research platform, a national resource for investigators working on a variety of important health questions....
The National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program issued a funding announcement today for Genome Centers to generate genotype and whole-genome sequence data from the samples submitted by participants in the program....
You may question how you will benefit from participating in a program like All of Us and how participating could potentially compromise your privacy. Your skepticism is warranted and worthy of investigation to help you make the correct decision....
In the current environment of heightened privacy and security concerns, the NIH is embarking on an effort, called "All of Us", to collect health data from 1 million Americans. Learn about the steps "All of Us" is taking to secure participant data....