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 project seeks to complete the enhancement of a 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:

  • Increased data liaisons to 26, 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.
  • 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.
  • Held scientific seminar in December 2025 as part of the Health Informatics Community Meeting, featuring Dr. David Hanauer, PhD.
  • Contributed to the HawkAI initiative by developing and delivering course content for HawkAI 302.
  • An IHDR Data Enclave refresh is in progress, with new hardware ordered and installation planned for winter 2026.
  • Conducting quality reviews of data assumptions and pipelines for the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine and the Self-Service Tool
  • Geographies of Health dataset continues development
  • The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership data model has been deposited for use in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Clinical repository.