Extending the Impact

Project Lead: Boyd Knosp

Funding Approved: Fiscal Year 25
Project Status: In Progress  
Funded amount: $902,890 for one year

The IHDR project supports research efforts by creating accessible health-related datasets and developing tools that protect confidentiality while providing access to health information for research purposes. This multi-collegiate collaboration leverages our institution's strength in fostering a collaborative and integrated culture. The FY2025 project seeks to complete the enhancement of campus-wide data literacy and accessibility initiative by the original P3 investment in IHDR and to establish an ecosystem that enables data-driven health research across campus.

Activities to date:

  • Added 13 new Data Liaisons - including faculty from the College of Engineering, faculty and staff from the Tippie College of Business, staff from Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, and staff from the College of Public Health - to bring the total number of data liaisons to 23.
  • Created an expedited version of formal and experiential learning to make training more accessible to the research community. 
    • Engaging the Workforce Development group to take key learnings from Data Liaison experiential and formal training to create a short seminar to create sustainable training options. 
    • Recording on-demand training content for future Data Liaison training and recording seminars for asynchronous consumption.
  • IHDR team members continue to advise, support, and take part in grant applications and collaborate with external 
    partners for multi-institutional projects
    • In 2024-25, supported 50+ posters and presentations, publishing of 40+ peer-reviewed manuscripts, and the submission of 6 NIH grants.
  • Completed seven new Data Enclave projects between July 2024 and March 2025, for a total of 41 projects and 116+ research faculty and staff from 10 colleges and orgs.
  • IHDR continues to deliver data to researchers through their service request process and facilitate External Data Sharing Requests for regional and national research projects using clinical data for research.
  • Eight grants supported by IHDR have been awarded by organizations such as NIH, CDC, DOD, HHS, and NSF.