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About the All of Us Research Program

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to speed up health research discoveries, enabling new kinds of individualized health care. To make this possible, the program is building one of the world’s largest and most diverse databases for health research. All of Us aims to include a million or more people living in the United States and its territories. The program seeks for its participant cohort to reflect the diversity of the U.S. population and to include individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in health research in the past.

About the All of Us Researcher Academy

The All of Us Researcher Academy provides training and technical assistance for researchers who are conducting research with the All of Us Researcher Workbench—the cloud-based platform where registered researchers can access data contributed by All of Us Us participants. The academy also supports peer-to-peer learning and network-building among researchers and students.

All of Us Researcher Academy resources are provided at no cost to students, faculty, and post-docs at institutions that have received academy Institutional Champion awards. RTI International has supported research teams at 19 universities overall.

RTI International leads the All of Us Researcher Academy in collaboration with the All of Us Research Program’s Division of Engagement and Outreach. The division partners with community organizations nationwide to foster relationships with participants, researchers, and health care providers. The academy and other researcher engagement activities are central to building a community of researchers.

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Researcher Academy Courses and Resources

Researcher Academy course materials are freely available online through Amaze, the academy's online learning platform.

Course topics include programming and data analyses on the Researcher Workbench, genomics, statistical techniques, grant writing, publishing, literature searching, and example data use cases, among other.

View the full course catalog for course descriptions, instructor bios, and course materials.

NEW | Self-Directed Train-the-Trainer Program

The All of Us Researcher Academy Train-the-Trainer Program provides evidence-based materials designed to help you train researchers in your lab, institution, or professional network to use the All of Us Researcher Workbench to advance science. In an evaluation, the training materials increased skills and confidence in using the Workbench among researchers without previous Workbench experience.

The program’s training materials are free, and the program is self-directed so you can work at your own pace. The Train-the-Trainer Program is designed for individuals who have used the Workbench and are proficient in R or Python. These materials include the following:

  • A series of video-recorded training workshop modules to complete at your own pace
  • A detailed training manual and PowerPoint deck to use for teaching others how to use the Workbench
  • A syllabus of training topics, techniques, resources, and milestones to guide you through honing your training skills
  • Templates for preparing a training implementation plan and for email communications between trainers and trainees
  • Resources for trainees, including the Researchers’ Guide to Using the Workbench, User Tips for Avoiding Common Workbook Challenges, and an analysis plan template
  • Strategies for driving trainees to take the next steps to register for the Workbench and to conduct an analysis of All of Us data by creating workspaces

Complete this form to sign up for the program and receive information on accessing the Train-the-Trainer Program materials.

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Questions about the All of Us Researcher Academy?

Contact AllofUs_Academy@rti.org to learn how you can participate.