Data-backed evidence is a powerful tool for helping researchers, community advocates, policymakers, and others uncover health challenges, better target resources, and measure progress toward ensuring that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to achieve their best health. Yet for too long, many researchers have had limited access to rich data -- a cornerstone of producing timely and objective research.
When we democratize data by recruiting owners of highly valued health data to provide researchers with access to that data, the research can draw actionable insights to create fairer, more effective health solutions that work for everyone.
Join Health Data for Action program staff, data providers, and researchers in a series of conversations to explore how access to data produces critically needed information to better understand and improve health and health care.
Brokering Data and Research Partnerships for Public Good
The first interview features Kathy Hempstead, senior policy officer at RWJF, in conversation with Megan Collado, senior director at AcademyHealth and HD4A program director, discussing Health Data for Action’s origin story and impact on research and policy. This video dives into data costs, the importance of brokers, and what’s needed to create data-backed evidence that can be used for action.
Price Transparency: New Frontiers Through Data
In the second installment of the series, Dr. Chris Whaley, an associate professor at Brown University, and Todd Gottula, co-founder and president of Clarify Health Solutions, discuss the critical importance of price transparency in health care. They explore how transparency can uncover price variations across different procedures, providers, insurers, and markets.
The HD4A program announced the final grantees under the program in 2024, and the program will wind down by the end of 2026. To learn more about the awarded projects and data providers, please check out this brief overview. Additional details on the previously awarded projects and their related products can be found here.